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| Literary Criticism | The evaluative or interpretive work written by professional interpreters of texts |
| Historical Context | By external events, cultural and personal values and beliefs, as well as economic constraints and opportunities. |
| Implied Author | Guiding personality or value system behind a text; not always synonymous with the actual author |
| Speaker in a Dramatic Monologue | one person, a monologue sets in a specific situation and is spoken to an imaginary audience. |
| Written Story | Hard Copy that cannot be changed |
| Oral Story | Word of mouth, changed by whoever is telling it |
| narrator | The character who “tells” the story |
| Audience | within the fiction whose possible reaction is part of the story. |
| Plot in fiction | Arrangement of action |
| Conflict | A struggle of some sort |
| Rising Action | Destabilizing events that break the routine and intensify the conflict. |
| Turning Point | Third part of a story, the incidents and the conflicts they introduce converge on a decisive moment, realization, or action. |
