| 4362351321 | Narrvative | A sequence of events that a narrator tells in story form | | 0 |
| 4362351322 | Narrator | A storyteller of any kind | | 1 |
| 4362351323 | Point of view | The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes | | 2 |
| 4362351324 | First-person narration | A narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I | | 3 |
| 4362351325 | Third-person narration | The narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper banned and third-person pronouns "he," "she," "it," and "they" | | 4 |
| 4362351326 | Omniscient narration | The narrator knows all the actions, feelings, and motivations of all the characters | | 5 |
| 4362351327 | Limited omniscient narration | The narrator knows the actions, feelings, and motivations of only one or a handful of characters | | 6 |
| 4362351328 | Free indirect discourse | The narrator conveys a character's inner thoughts while staying in third person | | 7 |
| 4362351329 | Objective narration | A style in which the narrator reports neutrally on the outward behavior of the charades but offers no interpretation of their actions or inner states | | 8 |
| 4362351330 | Unreliable narration | The narrator is revealed over time to be an untrustworthy source of information | | 9 |
| 4362351331 | Stream-of-consciousness narration | The narrator conveys a subject's thoughts, impressions, and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in a disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and writing | | 10 |
| 4362351332 | Character | A person, animal, or any other thing with a personality that appears in a story | | 11 |
| 4362351333 | Protagonist | The main character around whom the story revolves | | 12 |
| 4362351334 | Hero/heroine | An admirable protagonist | | 13 |
| 4362351335 | Antihero/antiheroine | A non admirable protagonist | | 14 |
| 4362351336 | Antagonist | The primary character or entity that acts to frustrate the goals of the protagonist | | 15 |
| 4362351337 | Stock character | A common character type that recurs throughout literature | | 16 |
| 4362351338 | Archetype | A stock character that holds a central place in a culture's folklore or consciousness | | 17 |
| 4362351339 | Foil | A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast | | 18 |
| 4362351340 | Plot | The arrangement of events in a story, including sequences they are told in, the relative emphasis they're given, and causal connections between events | | 19 |
| 4362351341 | Conflict | The central struggle that moves the plot forward | | 20 |
| 4362351342 | Rising action | The early part of the narrative which builds momentum and develops the narrative's major conflict | | 21 |
| 4362351343 | Climax | The moment of highest tension when the conflict comes to a head | | 22 |
| 4362351344 | Falling action/denouement | The latter part of the narrative during which the protagonist responds to the events of the climax and various plot elements introduced in the rising action | | 23 |
| 4362351345 | Reversal/peripeteia | A sudden shift that sends the protagonist's fortunes from good to bad or vice versa | | 24 |
| 4362351346 | Resolution | An ending that satisfactorily answers all the questions raised over the course of the plot | | 25 |
| 4362351347 | Chronological plot | Events arranged in the sequence which they occur | | 26 |
| 4362351348 | Archronological plot | Events are not arranged in the sequence they occur | | 27 |
| 4362351349 | Climactic plot | All the actions focuses toward a single climax | | 28 |
| 4362351350 | Episodic plot | A series of loosely connected events | | 29 |
| 4362351351 | Non sequitur plot | Presents events without any clear sequence and characters without any clear motivations | | 30 |
| 4362351352 | Subplot | Less importance to the overall story but may serve as a point of contrast or comparison to the main plot | | 31 |
| 4362351353 | Setting | Location of a narrative in time and space | | 32 |
| 4362351354 | Atmosphere | Suggestive mood that the setting may create | | 33 |
| 4362351355 | Figures of speech | Stretch words beyond literal meanings | | 34 |
| 4362351356 | Aposiopesis | A breaking off of speech because of rising emotion | | 35 |
| 4362351357 | Apostrophe | A direct address to an absent or dead person or to an object, quality or idea | | 36 |
| 4362351358 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds | | 37 |
| 4362351359 | Cacophony | Clash of discordant or harsh sounds within a sentence or phrase | | 38 |
| 4362351360 | Chiasmus | Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed "whom I love, I love indeed" | | 39 |
| 4362351361 | Colloquialism | Informal expression or slang | | 40 |
| 4362351362 | Conceit | Parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas | | 41 |
| 4362351363 | Epithet | Phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing | | 42 |
| 4362351364 | Euphony | Pleading arrangement of sounds | | 43 |
| 4362351365 | Idiom | A common phrase whose meaning that differs from its literal meaning | | 44 |
| 4362351366 | Litotes | A statement is affirmed by its negating opposite (double negative) | | 45 |
| 4362351367 | Meiosis | Opposite of hyperbole | | 46 |
| 4362351368 | Metonymy | Substitute of one term for another that generally is associated with it. "Suits" instead of "businessmen" | | 47 |
| 4362351369 | Paradox | A statement that seems absurd or contradictory on its face but expresses a deeper truth | | 48 |
| 4362351370 | Paralipsis | Drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it | | 49 |
| 4362351537 | Parallelism | Use of similar grammatical structures or word order to suggest a comparison or contrast | | 50 |
| 4362351538 | Pathetic faliacy | Human feeling or motivation to nonhuman object | | 51 |
| 4362351539 | Periphrasis | Elaborate manner of speech that uses more words than necessary | | 52 |
| 4362351540 | Pun | Play on words that exploits similarity in sound | | 53 |
| 4362351541 | Synaesthesia | Use one kind of sensory imagery to describe another | | 54 |
| 4362351542 | Synecdoche | Part of a whole "my wheels" to "my car" | | 55 |
| 4362351543 | Trope | Extend meanings of words by inviting a comparison to other words | | 56 |
| 4362351544 | Zeugma | Use of one word to modify two words in the sentence typically in two different ways | | 57 |
| 4362351545 | Anagnorisis | A moment of recognition or discovery | | 58 |
| 4362351546 | Bathos | Sudden drop from lofty to the trivial or excessively sentimental | | 59 |
| 4362351547 | Deus ex machina | Improbable plot twist that brings about a resolution | | 60 |
| 4362351548 | Invocation | A prayer for inspiration to a god or muse | | 61 |
| 4362351549 | Verbal irony | Sarcasm | | 62 |
| 4362351550 | Situational irony | One understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another | | 63 |
| 4362351551 | Romantic irony | Author's reminding of his or her presence in the work | | 64 |
| 4362351552 | Dramatic irony | Reader knows something the character does not | | 65 |
| 4362351553 | Cosmic irony | Perception of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent | | 66 |
| 4362351554 | Pathos | Invokes high emotion | | 67 |
| 4362351555 | Poetic diction | Use of uncommon phrases | | 68 |
| 4362351556 | Poetic license | Liberty authors take with syntax and grammar | | 69 |
| 4362351557 | Emblem | Concrete object representing something abstract; differs from symbol because it is a fixed object | | 70 |
| 4362351558 | Motif | Recurring structure that develops a work's major themes | | 71 |
| 4362351559 | Prosody | Study of elements of poetry | | 72 |
| 4362351560 | Accentuate meter | Number of stressed syllables is fixed but total number is not | | 73 |
| 4362351561 | Syllabic meter | Number of total fixed, stressed is not | | 74 |
| 4362351562 | Accuentual-syllabic meter | Both total and number of stressed syllables are fixed | | 75 |
| 4362351563 | Quantitative meter | Duration of each sound syllable determines meter | | 76 |
| 4362351564 | Caesura | Grand pause | | 77 |
| 4362351565 | Scansion | Process of analyzing number and type of feet | | 78 |
| 4362351566 | Iamb | Unstressed followed by stressed | | 79 |
| 4362351567 | Trochee | A stressed followed by unstressed | | 80 |
| 4362351568 | Dactyl | One stressed followed by two unstressed | | 81 |
| 4362351569 | Anapest | Two unstressed follow by a stressed | | 82 |
| 4362351570 | Spondee | Two strongly stressed | | 83 |
| 4362351571 | Pyrrhic | Two lightly stressed | | 84 |
| 4362351572 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter | | 85 |
| 4362351573 | Ballad | Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming | | 86 |
| 4362351574 | Masculine rhyme | Single stressed syllable rhyme "man" and "can" | | 87 |
| 4362351575 | Feminine rhyme | A rhyme consisting of a stressed followed by an unstressed "mother" and "brother" | | 88 |
| 4362351576 | Couplet | Two successive rhymed lines equal in length | | 89 |
| 4362351577 | Quatrain | Four line stanza | | 90 |
| 4362351578 | Tercet | A group of 3 lines often with a single rhyme | | 91 |
| 4362351579 | Terza rima | Interlaced tercets linked by rhymes | | 92 |
| 4362351580 | End stopped | Punctuation at end of line | | 93 |
| 4362351581 | Enjambment | Sentence runs into the next line with no pause | | 94 |
| 4362351582 | Refrain | A group of lines repeated at significant moments | | 95 |
| 4362351583 | Haiku | 5 7 5 | | 96 |
| 4362351584 | Limerick | Fanciful 5 line poem with AABBA rhyme scheme; lines 1, 2, and 5 have 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 have two feet | | 97 |
| 4362351585 | Ottava rima | Eight line stanza with iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme ABABABCC | | 98 |
| 4362351586 | Sestina | Six 6 line stanzas followed by a 3 line stanza | | 99 |
| 4362351708 | Sonnet | Fourteen lines of iambic pentameter | | 100 |
| 4362351709 | Italian or Petrarchan sonnet | ABBAABBACDECDE or ABBACDDCCDCCDC | | 101 |
| 4362351710 | Shakespearean sonnet | Three quatrains and a couplet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG | | 102 |
| 4362351711 | Spenserian sonnet | ABAB BCBC CDCD EE | | 103 |
| 4362351712 | Villanelle | 19 line poem made of 5 tercets and a quatrain and uses two refrains | | 104 |
| 4375663089 | Allegory | Literal meaning corresponds directly to symbolic meaning | | 105 |
| 4375663090 | Aphorism | Concise expression of insight or wisdom | | 106 |
| 4375663091 | Black comedy | Disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner intended to confront uncomfortable truths | | 107 |
| 4375663092 | Burlesque | Humorous imitation of serious literature | | 108 |
| 4375663093 | Confessional poetry | Author discusses personal subject frankly | | 109 |
| 4375663094 | Didactic literature | Intended to instruct | | 110 |
| 4375663095 | Dirge | Short poem of grief | | 111 |
| 4375663096 | Eclogue | Short pastoral poem in the form of a soliloquy or between two shepherds | | 112 |
| 4375663097 | Elegy | Poem that laments death of another | | 113 |
| 4375663098 | Epigram | Witty statement often in verse | | 114 |
| 4375663099 | Fable | Short prose that illustrates a moral | | 115 |
| 4375663100 | Lyric | Short poetic composition that describes thoughts of a single speaker | | 116 |
| 4375663101 | Metafiction | Fiction that concerns the nature of fiction itself | | 117 |
| 4375663102 | Noir | Cynical, disillusioned, loner protagonist | | 118 |
| 4375663103 | Bildungsroman | A novel about development into maturity | | 119 |
| 4375663104 | Epistolary novel | Novel written in the form of letters | | 120 |
| 4375663105 | Picaresque novel | A realistic novel detailing a scoundrel's exploits | | 121 |
| 4375663106 | Verse novel | Full length novel written in verse | | 122 |
| 4375663107 | Ode | A serious lyric poem | | 123 |
| 4375663108 | Parable | Short narrative that illustrates a moral with allegory | | 124 |
| 4375663109 | Pastiche | Work that imitates another author or work | | 125 |
| 4375663110 | Pastoral | Celebration of life of shepherds and rustic life | | 126 |
| 4375663111 | Farce | A high energy comedy play on confusions and deceptions and it's fast paced | | 127 |
| 4375663112 | Prose poem | Strong rhythms like free verse but written in form of prose | | 128 |
| 4375663113 | Romance | Nonrealistic story about idealized characters | | 129 |
| 4375663114 | Satire | A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of others | | 130 |