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| The pattern of events, plan or main story line. |
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| An event used by authors to hint at a later event in a story. |
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| A thought or cutscene that interrupts the main story to show a past event or dialogue. |
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| A thought or cutscene that interrupts the main story to show a future event or dialogue. |
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| A process where an author directly tells the reader the character's personality and traits. |
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| A distinctive feature of a character that is able to be described. |
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| Conflict within a character that includes emotions and or thoughts. |
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| Conflicts a character experiences that include pain, violence, dialogue, and disease. |
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| Where the story takes place, including mood, tone, and actual location. |
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| The main character in a story, can be both good or evil. |
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| The character in the story that tries to prevent the main character from accomplishing his/her goal. |
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| The reason or reasons a character has for acting or behaving in a particular way. |
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| Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another thing. |
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| Irony involving a situation in which something happens that is opposite from what was intended to happen. |
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| Irony in which information is understood by the audience but not by the character. |
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| Information open to having several possible meanings or interpretations. |
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| The perspective from which a speaker or writer tells a story or presents information. |
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| When a character is telling the story from his/her view, usually uses words like I, me, and my. |
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| The reader knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character. |
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| The reader knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. |
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| The reader knows only what can be seen, not what is going on inside the heads of the characters. |
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| The issue of whether or not an author or narrator can be trusted due to bias or feelings. |
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| The central topic, subject, or concept the author is trying to point out, not to be confused with moral. |
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