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| Sequence of events in a short story, novel, or play, which involves conflict and details. |
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| A struggle between two opposing forces; basis for plot. |
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Man vs Man - external conflict
Man vs Nature - external conflict
Man vs Himself - internal conflict
Man vs society - external conflict |
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Methods the author uses to make the character come alive.
Ex: description by a narrator, characters' speech/actions, thoughts and feelings, and what others say about the character. |
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| The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like. |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| The writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think or say about him or her. |
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| A perception of human nature that the writer shares with the reader. |
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| When and where the story takes place. |
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| The technique of giving hints or clues that suggest or prepare for events that occur later in a story. |
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| Interrupting the sequence of events to include information about events that happened in the past. |
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| The state of anxious anticipation, expectation, or uncertainty regarding the resolution of the conflict. |
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| Highest point of action in the story. |
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| The author's way of expressing himself by use of word choice, sentence structure, etc. |
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| Feeling conveyed by the way the author writes about his subject |
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| Atmosphere or feeling that the author attempts to create in the story |
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| Author's choice of narration for his story. |
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| Uses "I" and "me"; has a narrator |
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| Unbiased outsider tells the story. |
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| Narrator only knows one character's thoughts |
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| THe incongruity or difference between reality and appearance |
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| The difference between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs. |
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| A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true. |
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| Opponent of the main character |
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| Round characters are fully developed; they have emotions, strengths, weaknesses; flat characters are simple; they have few emotions; they are usually minor characters. |
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| Dynamic change, flat do not |
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| A foil is a character who serves as a contrast to another perhaps more primary character, so as to point out specific traits of the primary character. |
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| An ideal example of a type; quintessence; an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype |
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| A person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well |
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| A pseudonym used by a writer |
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| Story coming from the folk |
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| Story made up to explain a phenomenon |
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| A story with a grain of truth |
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| Ridiculing the vices or follies of mankind with a hope of correction |
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| Comparison using like or as |
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| Comparison saying one thing is another; can be direct or implied |
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| A prose fictional writing usually between 500-20,000 words which can be read in one sitting. |
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