The central character of a narrative, the character through whom the lesson of the story is learned

A comparison of two items using “like” or “as”

The vantage point from which a story is told (first and third person)

Another significant meaning of a word, often steeped in symbol or feeling

The manner by which an author develops a character within a narrative

The spoken words of two or more character within a narrative

The picture in your mind that the words from the page create; can be figurative, symbolic, or literal

An EVENT where the opposite of what’s expected happens

When the reader or audience knows something a character does not know, and that knowledge in important to the flow of events

Represents and enforces principle reality.

Oriented towards perceptions in the real world and associated with reason and sanity

A narrative which tells the story of a real moment in history but embellishes it at least slightly (factual, dated)

The main idea of a work of literature; the message is the author sending to the reader

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

A regional variety of language, often with distinct accents and usage, including but not limited to whole phrases

A psychological aspect where a child, usually male, has strong, even desirous feelings for the parent of the opposite sex

The EXPLICIT meaning of a word or a particular meaning of a symbol

A reference to another work of literature or to a part of another work of literature or to a moment in history

The struggle between two opposing forces in a piece of literature, which the story is built around- The forces are the protagonist and the antagonist

The time and the place of the action of the story

The releasing of certain emotions in the audience: a feeling of pity and hatred for the actions of the tragic hero

A division within the drama, usually seen as the “chapter” of a novel

A truthful account of the life of a person, as told and written by that person

The attitude the author has toward the work, displayed through the language being used

A local variation of language, as in a word or phrase, found within particular dialects

A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true

A character who undergoes growth and development during the literary work in which he/she resides

A character of one dimension and personality trait who remains unchanged by the events of the literary work in which he/she resides

A truthful account of the life a person, told and written by another person

A small division of drama within an act, usually of the same setting as the act, but not by definition

A conventional and oversimplified opinion or belief about a person or group of people who may share similar characteristics; taking one characteristic of an individual and spreading that characteristic over the group that individual belongs to

The quality of moral excellence, righteousness, and responsibility, probity; goodness

An evil, degrading or immoral practice of habit; a serious moral failing

A character w/ different traits and aspects of personality but who neither grows nor changes during the literary work in which he resides

The part of the personality which acts as a moral monitor to the behaviors of the individual. It is the faculty that seeks to police what it deems unacceptable desires; it represent all moral restrictions

Using the words of a source directly, in a word-for-word borrowing

The events which make up a story line, in order of their happening

The language used by the writer, as well as the narrative techniques used, working together to form the full aspect of the printed material in front of us

The third person narrator who sees all and know all -even the thoughts- about the character of the story

That force which restores order within a tragedy, named for the goddess of retributive justice

A comparison of unlike things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’

A contrast between what is stated and what is meant; there are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony

To use details and images to hint at events to come in the narrative

The separation of an intellectual whole into its component parts in order to better understand and to reach a truth

Using the words of the author, though not in a direct, word-for-word borrowing

To put the words of the author into your own words

A prose fictional narrative containing all the elements of a novel but much shorter

A person of noble birth whose personal destruction is in some way involved w/ the well being of his/her world and who faces a battle of morals; her/his destruction comes from a flaw with his/her personality

The act of outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things which in turn tells the grasper a significant message about herself/himself; makes the learning personal, owned

The unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind; a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character’s mental processes

The body of principles and theory having to do with the presentation of the facts and ideas in clear, convincing, and attractive language

Appealing to persona considerations rather than to logic or reason

Involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by facts

A selection of writing which contains an unusual piling up devices in such a way as to evidence a self-conscious literary effort; a colorful passage standing out from the writing around it

The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

When an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.

Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions

A literary work, usually a drama, which deals with human themes; several elements are involved: hamartia, hubris, catharsis, nemesis; in a tragedy, a hero will fall due to elements within the personality

Excessive pride, especially found within the tragic hero

The interests or flavor of a specific locality as expressed in a story through language

The story of a fictional or actual events as told by the teller

A factual representation, conforming to nature, especially in art and literature

A truthful representation, with an inclination toward pragmatism, that is accurate to life’s xpression

A fictional prose, dealing essentially with a single conflict, which can be read in a single session

The concept that pleasure is the only thing that matters and any manner of attaining it is fine; often this is the role of the Id, the earliest part of the developing personality

The function which monitors the Id; the concept that some things are more important than immediate pleasure, namely, the continuation of pleasure after the initial gaining of it.

The point in the story after the conflict is resolved

A full-length work of fiction that is written in dialogue, meant to be performed upon a stage

Stopping the flow of the narrative to return to a setting or even earlier in the tale, even to events that predate the earliest part of the plot

The tragic flaw of a tragic hero; that which will make the hero fall; this needs to be a trait that is generally considered a good thing

The words the author uses to fully detail a place or thing; these words will bring pictures to the mind

Something which stands for and represents itself but also stands for something much greater than itself

The point in the story when the conflict is resolved- where we know who wins this conflict, the protagonist or the antagonist

A full-length prose fiction where the narrative is the chief story-telling element and several conflicts, settings, and characters will dwell

A structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly developed and phrased

False emotionalism in writing resulting in a too impassioned description of nature; it is the carrying over to inanimate objects the moods and passions of a human being

A deliberate display of emotion for effect

A biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language

Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it