| A | B |
|---|
| falling action | Final phase of a story presents the outcome |
| focus | Viewing Aspect |
| Voice | The verbal aspect |
| Omniscient or 3rd Person Narrator | Unlimited point of view |
| First Person Narrator | “I,” who tells the story and necessarily has a limited point of view |
| Persona | The voice or figure of the author who designs the story and creates the narrator who tells it. |
| Villain | “bad guy” who opposes the hero |
| Heroine | The leading female character who is larger than life |
| Anti-hero | Leading character is much more ordinary. Not because he opposes the hero but because he is not heroic in stature or perfection, is not so clearly or simply a “good guy” |
| Protagonist | good guy (typical lead character) |
| Antagonist | opponent (typical villain) |
| Flat Characters | Less Complex, usually a minor character and not presented vey much |
| Round Charaqcters | Detailed and more complex, usually a major character that can grow and change and the story is usually based on him/ her. |
| Stereotype in Fiction | Characters based on conscious or unconscious cultural assumptions about what a person’s sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, occupation, marital status, and so on will tell us about that person’s traits, actions, even values. |
| Setting in Fiction | Time and place |
| Simile in Fiction | When a figure is expressed as an explicit comparison, often signaled by like or as |
| Extended Metaphor | A detailed and complex metaphor that stretches through most of a work |
| Symbol | Compares or puts together two things that are in some way unlike |
| Allegory | Regarded as an “extended” symbol that encompasses a whole work |
| Myth | Like allegory, myth usually is symbolic and extensive |
| Theme | Central Idea |
