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| A story with a second meaning beneath the surface of the first one. |
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| A brief story about an interesting, amusing or strange event, often used as an example or support element in an essay. |
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| The protagonist's enemy, or the villain of a work. |
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| Following an eventful even with an uneventful one. |
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| An original model or type that served as a pattern. |
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| The dominant tone or mood in a work. |
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| The biography of a person written by himself. |
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| A written account of a person's life. |
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| A portrait of someone or something in which the subject's features are grossly exaggerated or distorted with the intent to ridicule. |
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| A character who undergoes a permanent change. |
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| A character who can be summed up in one or two traits. |
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| A complex, multi-dimensional character |
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| A character who is the same at the end of the story. |
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| A character who is a stereotype and is easily recognizable by appearance, behavior or dress. |
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| The most exciting or highest point in a movie or story. |
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| Humor in the midst of serious or tragic literature. |
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| A widely used or accepted technique in art, drama, or literature. |
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| The conflict or problem in a story. |
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| The solution to the conflict in a story. |
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| An unexpected event, character or device that untangles a plot or "saves the day," a miracle. |
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| Conversation between characters in a work of literature. |
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| Daily record of personal experiences. |
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| A work of literature on a national or international scale usually written in elevated or dignified language. |
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| A short addition at the end of a work of literature, sometimes dealing with the future of its characters. |
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| A story, usually with a moral, that uses animals as characters. |
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| A mythical story of legendary characters and creatures, usually intended for children. Fairy tales often reflect psychological conditions. |
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| A section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to return to the past. |
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| A character in literature or person who is the opposite in character or viewpoint of another character. |
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| Any aspect of a culture's crafts, customs, rituals, dialect, and literature passed orally from generation to generation. Folk literature is called the oral tradition. |
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| Indicating a plot event in advance by symbol or suggestion. |
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| A type of literature, Ex: short story, romance, detective story, mystery, novel, etc. |
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| A type of literature, Ex: short story, romance, detective story, mystery, novel, etc. |
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| The major figure in a story or drama. In traditional usage "hero" implies courage or valor, but in modern usage "hero" can describe a caracter who lacks these characteristics. Protagonist is a neutral term for the major figure in a literary work. |
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| Often used for a major figure who lacks "hero-like" qualities. |
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| Latin for "starts in the middle." |
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| A difference in what is said or written and what is intended. |
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| Saying something contrary to what it means. |
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| Events turning out to be the opposite of what is expected. |
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| where the reader or audience knows something a character does not know. |
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| A form of writing that conveys the dress, landscape, customs, and dialects of a particular place. |
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| Drama that employs a heavy use os suspence, sensational plot events, exaggerated emotion, and often a happy ending. |
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| A form of autobiography based on the experiences fo the author in the context of public or historical events in which the author participated. |
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| The overall atmosphere or feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
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| A dominant or a repeated theme element in a literary work. |
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| Someone who tells a story. |
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| A story with a religious or moral message. |
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| A form of satire achieved by imitating a literary work or artistic creation. |
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| A literary work that idealizes country and rural life. |
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| The role, attitude, personality a writer assumes in order to achieve a literary purpose. |
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| A long narrative or novel involving clever rogues or rollicking adventures; often the plot structure is based on the journey motif. |
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| The design and ordering of events in a literary work. |
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| The rhetorical perspective that a narrator or speaker takes in a narrative or essay. One could identify the point of view as objective, subjective, first person, second person, third person, limited omniscient, unlimited, stream of consciousness, etc. |
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| An introductory essay or paragraph from an author or critic that introduces a literary work. |
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| An introduction to a literary work. |
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| The ordinary written form of language that is organized, usually, in paragraphs. Its forms are fiction and nonfiction. |
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| The main figure (character) in a literary work. |
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| A literary philosophy that emphasizes ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, truth no matter where it leads and a scientific, objective portrayal of life. |
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| The outcome of the plot or a conflict in a literary work. |
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| The second of five parts of plot structure, in which events complicate the situation that existed at the beginning of a work, intensifying the conflict or introducing new conflict. |
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| A medieval narrative in prose or verse telling of adventures of chivalric heroes (knights and castles and such). |
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| Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of romance or chivalric behavior. Modern usage of the word associate it with love and courtship. |
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| A literary philosophy that emphasizes love of nature; focus on self, the individual; use of the supernatural, the mysterious or the gothic; use of the past; and idealism. |
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| A prose narrative of the 12th and 13th centuries recounting historical and legendary events and exploits in Iceland or Norway. Modern meaning: a long narrative of a family's fortunes over a number of generations. |
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| A genre of literature that criticizes with humor or ridicule. |
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| An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work. |
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| A type of fictional writing based on future possibilities derived from scientific discoveries. |
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| The time and place of a literary work which also implies the social, political and historical context of the work. |
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| A literary technique in which the author continuously records in first person narration a person's thoughts and feelings. |
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| The way the parts of poetry, novels etc. are arranged or put together to form a whole. |
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| The way in which something is said or written. |
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| A subordinate literary plot, a motif. |
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| An artistic philosophy that emphasizes dreams, the subconscious, the absurd, and fantastic imagery. |
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| Something that represents something else by association, resemblance or convention. |
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| Using one thing to represent another. Attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events or relationships. |
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| Stories with events based around real situations but truth is stretched often by the use of hyperbole, overstatement and understatement. |
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| An underlying truth or pattern of meaning in a literary work. |
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| An identifying name given to a work of art. |
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| A writer's attitued towards their subject or audience. Point of view, narrative style, diction and even syntax help determine the tone or personality of the author. |
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| A work describing a struggle between characters, ending in disaster. |
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| The concept that a literary work is cohesive, complete, and revolves around a central theme. |
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| When a theme or an idea in a story or poem applies to all generations. |
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| A wicked or evil person, a scoundrel. |
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| The attitude portrayed to the reader by certain words or phrases the author writes. |
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| The quality or appearance of being true or real, the quality of realism in a work. |
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