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| A Narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning, because of the events' actions, characters, settings, and objects, which represent specific abstractions or ideas |
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| A character, force, or collection of forces in a fiction or dama ht opppsses the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story. |
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| The strugle within the plot between opposing forces. |
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| Associations and implocations that go beyond the literal meaning of a word. |
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| A turning point in the action of a story that has a powerful meaning or effect on the protagonist. |
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| A type of informal diction. Dialecs are spoken by definable groups of people from a pirticular geographic region. economic group, or social classes. |
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| A writers choice of words, phrases, sentences, structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning. (Word Choice) |
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| Is a person presente in a dramatic or narrative work. |
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| The varbel exchanges between characters. |
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| Is a figure of Speech that occurs when a person says onething, but means the opposite. |
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| A chacter which under goes some kind of changes, because of the action in the plot. |
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| A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background information about their circumstances. |
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| In fiction, when a character suddnly experinces a deep realization about their self. |
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| A chacter in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another characer in an orderly highlight to the distinctive temoerature of that character. |
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| The "I" in the story presents the point of view of only one character. |
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| The introduction early in a story of verabal and dramatic hints that suggest what is to come later. |
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| A french word meaning kind or type. |
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| Is often called a protagonist, is the central character who engages the readers interest and empathy. |
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| A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smeels, tastes, feeling, or actions. |
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| Represents the plain language of everyday use, and often includes idomatic expresions, slang, contractions, and many simple common words. |
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| A literary device that uses contradictory statement or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. |
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| The narrator knows a lot but not everything. |
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| Is a figure of speech that make a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as. |
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| Maintains correct language usage, but is less elevated than formal diction. |
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| The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the voic of the author. |
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| Is an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the stroy and who can move from place to place and pass back and fourth through time, slippong into or out of characters a no human can't do in real life. |
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| A term referring to the use of a word that resembles to the sound it donates. |
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| A condesec form of paradon in which two contradictory words are used together. |
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| A statement that initally appears to be contradictory, but then on closer inspection, turns, out to ake sense. |
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| A form of metaophor in which human characters are atributed to nonhuman things. |
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| An aithors selction and arrangement of incidents in a soryy to shaope the action and give the stroy a pirticular focus. |
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| Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told. What we know and how we feel about the events in a work are shaped by the authors choice. |
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| The main character of a narrative; it's the central character who enages the readers intrest and empathy. |
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| The conclusion of a plots conflicts anf the complications. |
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| In which complication creates some sort of conflict for the protagonist. |
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| The character is a full formed person that we can see, is personality of who he really is. |
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| The ohysical and ocial context in which he action of the story occurs. |
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| A common figure of speech that makes an explict comparison beween teo things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems. |
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| Is when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to force beyond human comprehension or control. |
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| The character doesn't change no mater what happens around him. |
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| The distinctive and unique manner in which a writer arrangers words to achive particular effects. |
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| The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own righ, that reinforces or contrasts with the mainplot. |
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| A peron, object, image, word, or event, that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstracted than it's literal significance. |
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| The order of words into meaning ful verbal patterns such as phrases, clsuses, and sentences. |
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| The central meaning on dominant idea in a liteary work. |
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| The central ideas of an essay. |
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| The authirs implicit attiude toward the reader or the people,places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the authors style. |
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| Is a figure of speech that ocurs when a person says onething , but means the opposite. |
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