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| character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character, or protagonist, in some way. |
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A term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader. In literature, characters, images, and themes that symbolically embody universal meanings and basic human experiences, regardless of when or where they live, are considered archetypes.
(In English...a thing that is kind of a model, like star crossed lovers, like Romeo and Juliet, things like that) |
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| In the creation and criticism of fictional works, a character flaw is a limitation, imperfection, problem, phobia, or deficiency present in a character who may be otherwise very functional. |
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| a sequence of phrases or sentences, each more forceful or intense than the last, or the conclusion of such a sequence |
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| The struggle within the plot between opposing forces. |
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| Associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word, which derive from how the word has been commonly used and the associations people make with it. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| The verbal exchanges between characters. Dialogue makes the characters seem real to the reader or audience by revealing firsthand their thoughts, responses, and emotional states. |
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| A writer’s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning. |
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in literature or drama, a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story |
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| A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances. Exposition explains what has gone on before, the relationships between characters, the development of a theme, and the introduction of a conflict. |
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A narrated scene that marks a break in the narrative in order to inform the reader or audience member about events that took place before the opening scene of a work. |
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| Character that is flat with not much personality, think cardboard here. |
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| When the writer hints at things to come. |
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| literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. |
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what someone is feeling at a particular time.
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time |
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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 author’s choice of point of view. |
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| The main character of a narrative; its central character who engages the reader’s interest and empathy. See also character. |
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| The conclusion of a plot’s conflicts and complications. The resolution, also known as the falling action, follows the climax in the plot. |
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| a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author. |
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| A literary character who remains basically unchanged throughout a work |
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| The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own right, that reinforces or contrasts with the main plot. |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
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| The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. A theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. |
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| The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style. |
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