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| an author's beliefs, feelings, or opinions |
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| the central figure in a literary work |
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| to break a literary work into parts and examine closely each part |
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| a device in which human characteristics are given to something nonhuman |
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| the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succedding generations |
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| the everday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language |
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| a narrative structure containing or connecting a series of otherwise unrelated tales |
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| a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1920 for The Age of Innocense, wrote a short story entitled, Roman Fever, along with many other works. |
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| is an artistic movement in which artists and writers represent objects, events or social conditions as they really are. |
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| relates an author's life and thougts to the author's works |
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| after the climax or climaxes, the story enters a period where events begin to fall into place |
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| is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows the causal arrangement of events and actions within a story. |
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| the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax |
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| refers to the way the author uses words, diction, syntax, figurative language and imagery |
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| images and words the author uses to paint a picture in the reader's mind |
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| refers to how authors arrange their sentences |
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| an extension of the Realism movement, also rejeced the idealism of the Romantic movement |
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| is literature that develops plot and character through the dialogue and action of actors. |
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| encompasses the words that the authors choose to incorporate into their writing |
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| is literature that develops plot and character through the dialogue and action of actors |
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