General
The main idea, or message, of a literary work; express timeless and universal ideas
What is theme?
Character in a story or poem who opposes the main character.
What is the antagonist?
The author directly tells us directly what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
The person who is telling a story.
What is narrator?
The series of events that happens in a story.
What is plot?
The writer's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself.
What is tone?
Any of the persons or animals involved in a story.
What is a flat character?
The version of or vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The conclusion of the story.
The time and place in which the action of a story occurs.
What is setting?
A character who undergoes some type of permanent change in a story?
What is a dynamic character?
A character who is the same sort of a person at the end of a story at the beginning.
What is a static character?
The story is told be one of its characters.
What is first person?
The highest point of conflict in a story.
What is the climax?
Something that means more than what it is.
What is a symbol?
What is characterization?
The way in which an author describes a character by telling us about its actions, thoughts, words, and effect on others.
What is indirect characterization?
The story is told from someone outside the story that knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited?
The events that follow the climax.
What is the falling action?
A reference to something previous in literature or history.
What is an allusion?
The main character of a novel, play, or film.
A problem. It can be internal or external.
What is conflict.
The story is told from someone outside the story that knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters.
Third person omniscent
The part of the story in which readers find out the who, what, where, when and why of the story.
What is the exposition?