Narration/POV
When a story is told like this:
"I woke up early..."
"I am a 40-year-old mand..:"
1st person narrator
The terms for the most important people and least important people in fiction
Main character/s and minor character/s
When a story jumps back in time
Flashback
"Yo", "The greens", "Homie"
Slang
"Your heart is made of stone"
"The cold hand of fear"
"A warm gaze"
Metaphors
What is it called when a story is told like this:
"She grabbed her coat..."
"They forgot that Aslan never dies..."
3rd person narration
A character that develops
A round/complex character
When a story is told linnear
When the language is written as we speak
colloquial
The place/location where a stort takes place
The setting
What is the term for a narrator you cannot trust?
Unreliable
A character that doesn't develop
Flat, static character
When a story begins in the middle of the action
In medias res
When there are many long sentences and few punctuation
When there few and short sentences
Complex sentence structure
Simple sentence structure
"Dove+peace"
"White+innocence"
"Crow+death"
Symbolism
What is it called when a narrator knows
1) everything
and
2) not everything
Omniscient and limited
The hero of the story
Protagonist
When the writer clues the reader in to something that will eventually occur in the story; it may be explicit (obvious) or implied (disguised)
Foreshadowing
The two types of style to write in:
High and low style/formal and informal
"My love is like a rose"
"Your gown is white as a ghost"
Similes
What is it called when what we know and get told is dependent on one specific character?
Knowledge is character-bound
The villain of the story
Antagonist
Point of no return
What does "connotation" and "denotation" mean?
The literal meaning of a word and what we personally identify with a specific word
When a text refers to another text or a character from another text
Intertextuality