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| A Character who is known for some outstanding trait or traits. They are almost a stereotype rather than a unique character. They have little description since we already know them. |
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| To identify the narrator of a story, describing any part her or she plays in the events and any limitations placed upon his or her knowledge is to identify point of view. |
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| The time and place of a story. Locale: a term that refers to place. |
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| The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside. |
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| a participatory narratowr who fails to understand all the implications of a story. Ex. Huck Finn |
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| a kind of selective omniscience: the presentation of thoughts and sense impressions in a life-like fashion - randomly. |
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| The narrator sees into the minds of all (or some) of the characters, moving when necessary from one to the other. |
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| An extended presentation of a character's thoughts, not in the helter-kelter order of stream of consciousness. |
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| The speaker or the one from whom the story is told. |
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| Fiction of grim realism, in which the writer observes human characteristics like a scientist studying ants, seeing them as the products and victims of environment and heredity. |
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| A character that experiences a change over the story. |
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| Has one outstanding characteristic; a few distinguishing marks. |
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| Characters who are represented with more detail and depth; Usually a main character. |
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| A character who dos not change through the story. they remain fixed. |
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| A reference to a famous person, place or thing in history, in fiction, or in actuality. |
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| A hero who lacks one of the typical traits of the hero. |
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| A act which has no motivation or cause. |
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| Whatever general idea or insight the entire story reveals |
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| When a non-participatory narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character (major or minor) |
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| The conflict in which some character is involved. |
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| The opening position of a story that sets the scene (if an), introduces main characters, tells us what happened before the story opened and provides any other background information we need |
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| The exact, dictionary meaning of a particular word. |
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| Emotional associations of a word, usually based on individual experience, regional experience, or universal implications |
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| Those words which arouse the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste or touch. |
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| Generally introduced by like or as, a comparison of two dissimilar objects. |
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| A comparison of two dissimilar objects, without using like or as; endowing the first object with the qualities of the second object. |
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| The application of human characteristic to animals, inanimate objects or ideas. |
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| The regularity of recurrence, which established a repetitive pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| The repetition of all sounds, beginning with the accented vowel, in two or more words. |
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| The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a series of words. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds within a line of poetry. |
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