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| The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning |
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| An original idea, struggle, or type; A character who embodies such a universal type; Ex: Luke Skywalker as the [blank] of the hero |
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| A moral, emotional, or spiritual cleansing as a result of overcoming great odds or tragedy to survive |
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| A moment of sudden understanding or new realization |
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| The major category into which a literal work fits; The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama, however, genre is a flexible term since within these broad boundaries exist many subdivisions that are often called genres themselves |
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| A composition giving the discourse of only one speaker |
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| An atmosphere created by a writers word choice (diction) and the details selected, usually connected to the setting |
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| A recurring idea in the work, usually a word or phrase |
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| The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events |
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| The techniques the author uses to tell the story; Ex: Interior monologue, dialogue, stream-of-consciousness, flashback, foreshadowing |
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| The fictional voice which a writer adopts to tell a story |
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AP multiple choice definition: In literature the perspective from whcih the story is told; Two general divisions: The first person narrator tells the story with the first person pronoun "I" and is a character in the story (Protaganist, participant, or observant), The third person narrator relates the events with the third person pronouns "he", "she", and "it"; There are two main subdivisions of the third person narrator: omniscient and limited omniscient, With third person omniscient the narrator has godlike knowledge and can reveal what each character feels and thinks at any given moment, the third person limited omniscient presents the feelings and thoughts of only one character.
Essay definition: The author's perspective |
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| The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life |
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