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| What is a gravestone tribute writing |
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| What makes up the components of the action |
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| All good heroes are _______. |
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| Brief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral. |
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| Brief story that teacher a moral, unlike a fable in that a moral is implicit and can be interpreted differently. |
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| Short story without a complex plot. |
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| humorous short story that provides a wildly exaggerated version of events |
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| Short narrative usually orally transferred, supernatural characters often with a hero seeking a desirable fate. |
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| prose story too brief to be published in a separate volume |
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| "Coming-of-Age Story;" Main character (usually a child) undergoes an important experience |
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| main or central character in a narrative. |
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| Most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist |
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| opening portion of a narrative, scene is set, protagonist introduced, and background information is introduced |
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| central struggle between two or more forces in a story |
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| introduction of a significant development in central conflict between characters |
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| When the crucial action, decision, or realization must take place |
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| The moment of greatest intensity towards the end of work. |
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| Logical end or outcome of a unified plot shortly following the climax, also called the Resolution. |
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| indication of events to come in a narrative, relevant to the plot. |
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| scene relived in a character's memory. |
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| A moment of profound insight or revelation by whiche a character's life is greatly altered. |
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| Latin phrase meaning "in the midst of things" |
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| When and where; Time and Place |
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| Location where the story takes place |
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| dominant mood or feeling that pervades all or part of a literary work. |
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| representation of specific locale (by region) |
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| type of fiction in whiche characters are presented as products of victims of environment and heredity. Naturalism is considered an extreme form of realism. |
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| Very minor, mentioned very few times; only one outstanding trait. |
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| Questions to Consider about Character? |
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- Identify the most important character
-Consider the ways the character's personalities and values are communicated.
- Consider how the story's action grows out of its character. |
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| revelation of the character, good and bad things. |
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| Does the character change? |
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| what pushes the character |
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| "many voice in multiple conversations"; explains the multiple conversations occurring in a novel. |
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| the rules of interpretation |
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| attempting to reconstruct an author's intentions or the meaning it might have had for readers at the time it was written. |
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| An author's unspoken, but implied assumptions concerning politics, sexuality, religion, etc. |
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| hermeneutics of suspicion |
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| the act of studying, analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and enjoying a work of art. |
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