The plan of action during a story that shows the course of the story...
What is a plot?
100
A short novel or a long short story...
What is a novella?
200
Short quotation or saying that is intended to suggest the theme of the story...
What is epigraph?
200
Someone or something trying to prevent the protagonist from reaching his/her goal...
What is antagonist?
200
Characters that are opposites of each other...
What is a foil?
200
Include the time place and mood of the setting...
What is the setting?
200
A verse or stanza of a poem or song...
What is a stave?
300
A verse of poem or song (stanza)...
What is stave?
300
Three points of view...
What is 1st person limited, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient?
300
Leads reader from first story into another within the main story...
What is a frame story?
300
A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work. It may be stated directly or implied...
What is a theme?
300
Partially based on the authors real life...
What is Semi-Autobiographical?
400
interuppting the present time event to go to the future...
What is flash forward?
400
Modern day hero, not a great person. An everyday or ordinary person that is a victim of society...
What is Anti- Hero?
400
A flow of thoughts and images that may not always appear to be of use to the story...
What is a stream of consciousness?
400
Anything that stands for or reperesents something else...
What is a symbol?
400
A struggle between two forces (man vs. nature, man vs. man)
What is external conflict?
500
It is a symbol, theme, setting, or character that is thought to have some univesal meaning and reoccurs in different times and places, in myths, literature, folklore, dreams, and rituals.
What is archetype?
500
A man or woman of divine ancesty who is endowed with great courage and strength celebrated for his or her bold exploits, and favored by the gods...
What is demi-god or hero?
500
Writing about the wrongs in society, hoping to change them...
What is social commentary?
500
Use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning...
What is irony?
500
The struggle between two forces (man vs. self, man vs. divine force)