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| the presentation of a character, whether by direct description, by showing the character in action, or by the presentation of characters who define each other. |
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| The time and place of a story. The general locale, historical time and social circumstances of which the action of the story unfolds. |
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| The way the story is told; how a reader is presented with characters, dialogue, action, setting and events constituting the narrative. |
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| Character and traits of the narrator telling the story- based on diction, syntax and tone. |
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| attitude of a speaker towards his/her subject and audience; more generally, the overall mood of a story. |
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| The choice of vocabulary, often related to the syntax. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds, particularly in stressed syllables. |
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| A situation in a narrative in which the reader shares with the narrator or major character knowledge of present or future circumstances of which a character is ignorant. |
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| A person, object, action or situation that sugests another meaning beyond its literal one. |
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| The hero or dire character in a narrative of whom our interest is directed. |
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| a character, who by sharp contrast, highlights the temperament and opposite qualities of the protagonist. |
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| First Person Point of View |
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| The narrator who speak is also a character in the story. |
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| Development of the plot and conflict leading toward the climax. |
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| The peak of the major conflict, the point of greatest tension in the plot where events come to a head for the protagonist. |
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| the untying or unknotting of the plot; the slackening of tension and falling action, leading to a resolution. |
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| BATMAN!!!! A protagonist whose character and goals are antithetical to classical heroism. |
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| An apparent contradiction that on closer inspection makes sense or truth. |
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| The use of limits or clues to suggest what will unfold later in the story. |
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| Fiction in which the subject type of the narrative is the act of story telling; this type of fiction often also poses questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. |
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| The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic or believable- usually accomplished through striking details. |
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| In narrative description, the presentation of effects of an event before relating that event's causes. |
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| a genre of connectedness in which seemingly separate stories are linked by suing common, recurring, focuses, whether through setting, characters, allusion or narrative patterns. |
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| Simply a reporter of events who does not participate in the events of the story. |
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| A narrator who knows everything about events, characters' states of mind and thoughts, and can move freely between these. |
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| A story told from the confines of what is experienced, thought and felt by one or limited number of characters. |
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| The holder of the narrative point of view, whose eyes we see the story through primarily. |
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| A type of comic book with a complex story line that has a particular beginning, middle and end; often it is aimed at a mature audience and combines words with juxtaposed images. |
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| Unlike a chronological biography of a life, this genre (first person) is about how one remembers part of one's life; usually this genre recounts aspects related to politics and public affairs. |
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| The space between panels which engages readers to think about the relationships between the panels. |
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| The imaginative activity in which we connect panels together and construct a continuous "story-time reality;" through process, readers stimulate time, space and motion. |
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| A quatrain, typically rhyming ABAB, with alternating 8 and 6 syllables. Dickinson likes this. |
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| A group of lines forming a unit that is repeated in a poem. |
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| Language that invokes and appeals to our sensory perceptions. |
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| A kind of figurative language that equates one thing with another, suggesting how two things that, perhaps, are unlike are actually alike. |
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| The associations, suggestions and overtones of a word. |
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| Giving objects human like qualities. |
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| A strong pause within a line. |
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| Near Rhyme or Slant Rhyme |
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| A partial or imperfect rhyme. Two words at the the end of separate lines of poetry in a stanza that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common, or which have similar vowel sounds but don't end in the same consonant. |
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