A point of view in which the third-person narrator merely reports dialogue and action with little or no interpretation or access to the characters’ minds
What is an objective point of view?
100
This narrator does not appear in the story and writes in third person, but is usually capable of revealing the thoughts and motives of one or more characters
What is a non-participant narrator?
100
In this technique, the writer says or presents one thing but means the total opposite
What is irony?
100
The way an author uses language to create a literary work, it depends on his or her characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, and figurative language
What is style?
100
The main character or hero in a story
What is the protagonist?
200
A first-person narrator who is relatively detached from the action or plays only a minor role in the story
What is an observer?
200
Often a child, this narrator fails to understand the implications of the story and is often used by the writer as a means to promote irony, sympathy, or pity.
What is a naïve narrator?
200
The word choice or vocabulary used in a literary work.
What is diction?
200
The attitude toward a subject conveyed by a literary work
What is tone?
200
The character or force that is working against the main character or hero
What is the antagonist?
300
The narration is written in first person and is involved in the action. They may be either a major or minor character
What is a participant narrator?
300
A character who, intentionally or unintentionally, relates the events of the story in a subjective or distorted manner.
What is an unreliable narrator?
300
This occurs when the readers understand something that the characters don’t, and, as such, foresee the consequences much sooner.
What is dramatic irony?
300
A symbol that has a commonly known meaning (IE a black cat)
What is a conventional symbol?
300
The struggle the main character is engaged creates BLANK in a story?
What is conflict?
400
A narrator who has the ability to move freely through the consciousness of any character and has complete knowledge of all of the external events in a story
What is an omniscient or all-knowing narrator?
400
An extended presentation of the character’s thoughts, usually written in present tense and without quotation marks. It should read as though the character is talking to him or her self.
What is an interior monologue?
400
Sarcasm falls under this category.
What is verbal irony?
400
An act whose significance goes way beyond the literal meaning
What is a symbolic act?
400
This occurs when the action and struggle in the story reaches its peak.
What is the climax?
500
A Latin term which means to begin "in the middle of things."
What is in media res?
500
A technique that attempts to replicate the random patterns of human thought. Often, this is done through the use of interior monologues.
What is stream of consciousness?
500
This is a type of situational irony wherein there is a strong discrepancy between what characters deserve or aspire to and what they get.
What is cosmic irony or the irony of fate?
500
Essentially, an extended metaphor wherein the characters and events actually simultaneously exist within the story itself and as representations of other characters and stories entirely (IE Wizard of Oz, Avatar)
What is an allegory?
500
These two things occur after the action in the story has reached a pinnacle and the literary work begins to wrap up.
What is the falling action and the resolution/conclusion?