| A | B |
|---|
| tone | conveys the author's attitude toward character, the topic, or readers |
| mood | atmosphere in the story (example: mysterious) |
| theme | central idea of serious fictional works |
| author's insight or general observation | theme |
| thesis | central focus or argument of |
| didactic literature | primary purpose of the story is to teach a moral or philosophical truth |
| fable | short animal tale that state a lesson or moral of life |
| motif | help to pinpoint the theme of a workor universal truth using abstract nouns |
| uses abstract nouns | motif |
| 1st person point of view | uses "I" and "me" |
| 3rd person point of view | uses "he", "she", and "they" |
| interior monologue | expresses unspoken thoughts; internal conversation |
| omniscient | all knowing; reveals all the thoughts of the characters |
| limited omniscient | reveals the thoughts of a single character |
| particularity | uniqueness or singularity of a work of fiction |
| universality | relevance or applicability of a fictional work to large groups of people across time and place |
| plot summary | conveys only the facts of the story |
