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| The central character of a narrative, the character through whom the lesson of the story is learned |
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| comparison of two items using "like" or "as" |
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| The vantage point from which a story is told (first and third person) |
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| Another significant meaning of a word, often steeped in symbol or feeling |
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| The manner by which an author develops a character within a narrative |
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| The spoken words of two or more character within a narrative |
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| The picture in your mind that the words from the page create; can be figurative, symbolic, or literal |
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| An EVENT where the opposite of what's expected happens |
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| When the reader or audience knows something a character does not know, and that knowledge in important to the flow of events |
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| Represents and enforces principle reality. Oriented towards perceptions in the real world and associated with reason and sanity |
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| A narrative which tells the story of a real moment in history but embellishes it at least slightly (factual, dated) |
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| The main idea of a work of literature; the message is the author sending to the reader |
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| A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. |
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| A regional variety of language, often with distinct accents and usage, including but not limited to whole phrases |
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| A psychological aspect where a child, usually male, has strong, even desirous feelings for the parent of the opposite sex |
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| The EXPLICIT meaning of a word or a particular meaning of a symbol |
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| A reference to another work of literature or to a part of another work of literature or to a moment in history |
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| The struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature, which the story is built around- The forces are the protagonist and the antagonist |
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| The time and the place of the action of the story |
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| The releasing of certain emotions in the audience: a feeling of pity and hatred for the actions of the tragic hero |
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| A division within the drama, usually seen as the "chapter" of a novel |
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| A truthful account of the life of a person, as told and written by that person |
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| The attitude the author has toward the work, displayed through the language being used |
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| A local variation of language, as in a word or phrase, found within particular dialects |
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| A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true |
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| A character who undergoes growth and development during the literary work in which he/she resides |
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| A character of one dimension and personality trait who remains unchanged by the events of the literary work in which he/she resides |
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| A truthful account of the life a person, told and written by another person |
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| A small division of drama within an act, usually of the same setting as the act, but not by definition |
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| A conventional and oversimplified opinion or belief about a person or group of people who may share similar characteristics; taking one characteristic of an individual and spreading that characteristic over the group that individual belongs to |
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| The quality of moral excellence, righteousness, and responsibility, probity; goodness |
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| An evil, degrading or immoral practice of habit; a serious moral failing |
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| A character w/ different traits and aspects of personality but who neither grows nor changes during the literary work in which he resides |
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| The part of the personality which acts as a moral monitor to the behaviors of the individual. It is the faculty that seeks to police what it deems unacceptable desires; it represent all moral restrictions |
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| Using the words of a source directly, in a word-for-word borrowing |
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| The events which make up a story line, in order of their happening |
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| The language used by the writer, as well as the narrative techniques used, working together to form the full aspect of the printed material in front of us |
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| The third person narrator who sees all and know all -even the thoughts- about the character of the story |
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| That force which restores order within a tragedy, named for the goddess of retributive justice |
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| A comparison of unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' |
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| A contrast between what is stated and what is meant; there are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony |
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| To use details and images to hint at events to come in the narrative |
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| The separation of an intellectual whole into its component parts in order to better understand and to reach a truth |
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| Using the words of the author, though not in a direct, word-for-word borrowing |
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| To put the words of the author into your own words |
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| A prose fictional narrative containing all the elements of a novel but much shorter |
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| A person of noble birth whose personal destruction is in some way involved w/ the well being of his/her world and who faces a battle of morals; her/his destruction comes from a flaw with his/her personality |
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| The act of outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things which in turn tells the grasper a significant message about herself/himself; makes the learning personal, owned |
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| The unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind; a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character's mental processes |
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