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| The Authors attempts to reveal the personality traits of characters in such a way as to make them beleivable for the reader. |
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| The struggle of two opposing forces, either within a single character or between a character and a single force |
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| The moment of highest action or interest for the reader |
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| The process of giving the reader or audience hints about the up coming events. |
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| Establishes the setttings, characters, and centra conflicts of the narrative |
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| A peice of imagitave writting whose source is the authors's mind |
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| Exageration intended to heighten an effect. |
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| Provides the audience with a moment of releif from a serious scene or shows harp contrast between two events |
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| The audience knows more than the characters |
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| When the meaning intended is the opposite of that expresed. |
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| The event that "get the story going" and causes all other events in the story to occur. |
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| the emotional tone of Literary work |
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| The Sum total of a person traits or qualites |
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| The Falling action of the plot that occurs after the climax. |
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| A group of literary workds that ar esimilar in form, style content or purpose. |
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| A comparion of two object or ides not using the word like or as. |
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| A statement that seems to or actualy does contradict itself. |
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| The events and actions of dramatic or literary work |
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| A story, either in prose or verse |
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| The physical place, the historical time and social circumstances in which the story takes place. |
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| A central Idea that runs through the text |
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| The person from whos point of veiw, the story is told. |
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A play on words that are either identicle or similar in sound but generally diffrent in meaning. |
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| Series of events in the plot, after the inciting incident, that lead to the climax |
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| Describing inanimate objects as though they had human qualities. |
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| The Characters in the story are referred to as he she or they. |
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| The perspective from which the story is told. |
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| The problems created by the inciting incident and rising action are solved and the stage is set for denouement. |
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Alack of certainty in the reader or the audienc eas to what is going to happen. |
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| A person place object or idea in literary work that represents something larger in meaning then itself. |
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| A comparison between two things that makes use of like or as |
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| The Central character in a work, upon whom the reader's attention centers. |
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- The repetition of initial sounds in words.
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| A reference to a famous person, place or thing |
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- A short account of a true event in an author life.
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- When a character/ person addresses an object or ides as if it were a living being.
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