Conflict
This is defined as the opposition of two or more characters or forces.
What is conflict?
This is a character who undergoes a change throughout the course of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
This is the central recurring idea of a work.
What is theme?
This is the perspective from which an author presents the elements of his story.
What is point of view?
Most stories make use of this, a series of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal.
What is plot?
What are man against man, himself, and a greater force?
This term describes a one-dimensional character about whom the reader learns very little.
What is a flat character?
These are ideas about life that can be understood by peoples of all times and places.
What are universal themes?
These are three primary points of view used by authors.
What are first-person, limited-omniscient, and omniscient?
This is the most basic structural division of a poem.
What is a line?
What is man against himself?
Like Phaethon, this is a protagonist whose suffering comes as a result of his own flaws?
What is a tragic hero?
These are themes that are not directly stated, but instead must be inferred by the reader analyzing the details of the story.
What are implicit themes?
This perspective is limited to one character's perceptions and voice.
What is first-person point of view?
What is meter?
The central character of a story is also known as this.
What is a protagonist?
What is a foil?
This is the simplest form of a theme.
What is a moral?
"The Forty Thieves" is one of these -- a short story set within a larger narrative structure.
What is a frame story (tale)?
The events of most plots are conveyed in this order.
What is chronological?
This occurs between a character and his own thoughts, beliefs, and emotions.
What is internal conflict?
These are the three primary methods of character revelation in a story?
What are action, dialogue, and description?
A reader should analyze these two elements of a work to find its theme.
What are its characters and conflicts?
The individual created by an author to narrate the story is called this.
What is a persona?
The plot structure of "The Necklace" is interesting because it is missing this key piece.
What is the denouement?