Literary Terms
Subject:
English [1]
Tags:
Literature [2]
Fiction [3]
Narratology [4]
style [5]
point of view [6]
Writing [7]
Scene [8]
Narrative mode [9]
Narrator [10]
Plot [11]
Narrative [12]
Unreliable narrator [13]
behavior [14]
Human development [15]
Love [17]
Psychoanalysis [18]
Human behavior [19]
Attachment theory [20]
Evolutionary biology [21]
Personal life [22]
Technology [23]
Mrs. Warren English I Fiction Literary Terms Fiction: Any writing from the author?s imagination. Narrative fiction: any writing from the author?s imagination that tells a story. It may be a short story, a novella, a novellette, a novel. Character: a person or animal in a story or work of literature. Characterization: the process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader. Protagonist: the main character of a story who is left changed by the conflict. A protagonist DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A HERO. The protagonist may not be a likable character, but he or she MUST be left changed by the conflict in the story Antagonist: the character, force, or collection of forces which oppose the protagonist and give rise to the conflict of the story