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| is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
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| is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. |
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| is the method used by a writer to develop a character. |
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| is the struggle found in fiction. |
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| is action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding. |
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| is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature. |
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| is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
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| is when an author says one thing and means something else |
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| is the emotional attitude the author takes towards hir subject |
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*A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
*A dominant theme or central idea. |
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| "The story is told from the point of view 'I,' as in Charles Boxter's "Gryphon." The I-narrator may be part of the action or an observer. |
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| This narrator speaks directly to the reader: "You walk in the room and what do you see? It's Mullins again, and you say, 'Out. I've done with him.'" This point of view is rare primarily because it is artificial and self-conscious. |
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| Third-person narration permits the author to be omniscient (all-knowing) when necessary but also to bring the focus tightly in on the central character by limiting observation only to what that character could possible witness or recall. |
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| literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack. |
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| is determining Time and Place in fiction. |
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| is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |
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| is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express. |
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| A very short tale told by a character in a literary work. |
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| person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work. |
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| is that part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution. |
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| the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play |
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| An unverifiable story based on a religious belief. |
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| A piece of literature contains a speaker who is speaking either in the first person, telling things from his or her own perspective, or in the third person, telling things from the perspective of an onlooker. |
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| The hero or central character of a literary work |
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| The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs-the way things are going to be from then on. |
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| In the Middle Ages, tales of exciting adventures written in the vernacular (French) instead of Latin. |
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| A short fictional narrative. |
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| an author's method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group. |
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| Many things enter into the style of a work: the author's use of figurative language, diction, sound effects and other literary devices. |
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| An ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity. |
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| Tone expressesthe author's attitude toward his or her subject. |
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| A person, or any thing presented as a person, e. g., a spirit, object, animal, or natural force, in a literary work. |
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| the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. |
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