| A | B |
|---|
| protagonist | central figure in story |
| angagonist | character who is pitted against a protagonist |
| flat character | one who exhibits a single dominant quality or trait |
| round character | one who exhibits the complexity of traits associated with actual human beings |
| static character | one who doesn't change during course of story |
| dynamic character | one who does change during course of story |
| stock character | one found again and again in different literary works |
| setting | time and place in which story takes place |
| mood | emotion created in the reader by part or all of the literary work |
| conflict | struggle between 2 forces: person vs person, person vs nature, person vs group, person vs self |
| plot | a series of events in a story |
| exposition | sets tone and mood, introduces the characters and setting, provides necessary background |
| inciting incident | event that introduces central conflict |
| rising action | develops conflict to a high point of intensity |
| climax | high point of interest or suspense |
| falling action | all the events that follow the climax |
| resolution | point at which the central conflict is ended |
| denouement | any material that follows the resolution and ties up any loose ends |
| theme | central idea in a literary work |
| foreshadowing | act of presesnting materials that hint at events to occur later in the story |
| irony | difference between appearance and reality |
| verbal irony | when a statement is made that implies the opposite |
| irony of situation | when an event violates the expctations of the reader |
| magical realism | incorporates elements of fantasy into ordinary |
| point of view | vantage point from which a story is told |
| 1st person | when a character tells the story |
| 3rd person limited | outside narrator focuses on one character |
| 3rd person omniscient | outside narrator reveals thoughts of all characters |
| hyperbole | exaggeration used for effect |
| methods of characterization | characters words or thoughts, actions, physical description, other character's reactions, direct statement by author |
| allusion | reference to something outside the story |
| personification | give human qualities to nonhuman things |
| simile | comparison using the words "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | when one thing is written about as if if were another thing |
| hero | a character whose actions are inspiring |
| tragic hero | character of high status who possesses noble qualities but also has a fatal flaw or weakness |
| symbol | object that represents itself but also has a deeper meaning |
