Static characters do not generally do this in the course of a story.
What is change?
100
Narration often follows a structure, making use of this type of logical arrangement.
What are patterns?
100
This type of literary device provides readers with a clue as to what may happen later; it is only at the end that they will discover its truth.
What is foreshadowing?
100
In a participant point of view, the narrator tells the story using this "person," but they may or may not be the main character.
What is first person?
100
This short story term means not only physical location, but historical context and time.
What is setting?
200
This type of character has several traits and a complex personality; they are generally dynamic.
What is a round character?
200
The artful arrangement of a story's events to create meaningful effect is this part of a story.
What is plot?
200
This literary device is itself, but it represents something deeper in the story.
What is a symbol?
200
In this general point of view, the narrator "knows all"--they can relate both thoughts and deeds of all the characters.
What is omniscient?
200
This literary term referrs to story tellers who may not be trustworthy; their words should be taken with a grain of salt.
What is "unreliable narrator"?
300
This relatively simple type of character generally has only one trait.
What is a flat character?
300
This type of arrangement marks the difference between a simple "story" and a "plot."
What is artistic or artful?
300
This literary device does not just appeal to our sense of sight--it can be an appeal to any of the five senses.
What is imagery?
300
Sometimes a third-person narrator does not enter minds and only relates what they see and hear. This objective point of view can also be referred to by this animal term.
What is "fly-on-the-wall" point of view?
300
When a reader asks, "What does this add up to?" they are attempting to discover this.
What is theme?
400
This description of a character should include what a character says and does, and what other characters say about and do to them.
What is a character sketch?
400
In plot, the ordering of events into cause-and-effect relationships is called this.
What is causality?
400
This term is defined as "a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature."
What is an allusion?
400
This general point of view is written using third person pronouns. There are several types within it and the narrator is not involved in the story.
What is nonparticipant point of view?
400
A narrative in a newspaper and a narrative in a book of short stories differ mainly in this.
What is purpose?
500
A character who serves as a contrast or opposite to another character
What is a foil?
500
This word to get you going also refers to the "why" of a story.
What is "motivation"?
500
Any good author will construct a narrator with a distinctive one of these; Michael Kors would approve.
What is style?
500
This point of view, also sometimes labeled as "stream-of-consciousness," limits the "all knowing" capability to one or a few characters.
What is selective omniscience?
500
In the editorial omniscient point of view, the narrator does this to events as they progress, metaphorically slamming down the gavel.