Characters
Narrator
Genre
Devices
Ends with "-tion"
100
The people in a story who are not the main point of the story, but still interact with or grab the attention of those main characters
What is Minor Character
100
A narrator that is only able to narrate those things he or she experiences firsthand, having no direct knowledge of other characters' thoughts
What is Limited Narration
100
A category of literature or film marked by defined shared features or conventions.
What is Genre
100
The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure
What is Personification
100
A style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity
What is Flash Fiction or Microfiction
200
A character that has depth and changes through the story
What is Round Character
200
To see through the characters eyes, very descriptive, access to the mind and everything they see.
What is Internal Focalization
200
A medieval narrative, originally one in verse and in some Romance dialect, treating of heroic, fantastic, or supernatural events, often in the form of allegory.
What is Romance
200
A comparison that continues into the sentences that follow. It is often developed at great length, occurring frequently in poems and fiction.
What is Extended Metaphor
200
To present or render in an unfamiliar artistic form usually to stimulate fresh perception
What is Defamiliarization
300
A character that does not change through a story; is predictable
What is Flat Character
300
A narrator that has a full knowledge of the story's events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters.
What is Omniscient Narration
300
A narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution
What is Detective Story
300
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development
What is Juxtaposition
300
An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
What is Connotation
400
Characters that are used to move the plot along; very regular
What is Stock Character
400
A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story
What is Narrative Frame
400
A genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance.
What is gothic
400
A type of ironical understatement made for emphasis; an affirmation expressed by denying its contrary
What is Litotes
400
From the narrator’s point of view
What is 1st Person Narration
500
Similar to flat character, stereotype
What is Type
500
When Narrators add a certain point of view to tell the story
What is Slant
500
A literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects
What is Burlesque
500
Literaly translates to "bright-dark" A sort of writing in which opposite emotions are mingled
What is Chiaroscuro
500
A grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial relations (such as the words in, under, toward)
What is Preposition
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