Antihero / antiheroine - A protagonist who is not admirable or who challenges notions of what should be considered admirable.
Character - A person, animal, or any other thing with a personality that appears in a narrative.
Climax - The moment of greatest intensity in a text or the major turning point in the plot.
Conflict - The central struggle that moves the plot forward. The conflict can be the protagonist’s struggle against fate, nature, society, or another person.
First-person point of view - A literary style in which the narrator tells the story from his or her own point of view and refers to himself or herself as “I.” The narrator may be an active participant in the story or just an observer.
Hero / heroine - The principal character in a literary work or narrative.
Imagery - Language that brings to mind sense-impressions, representing things that can be seen, smelled, heard, tasted, or touched.
Motif - A recurring idea, structure, contrast, or device that develops or informs the major themes of a work of literature.
Narrative - A story.
Narrator - The person (sometimes a character) who tells a story; the voice assumed by the writer. The narrator and the author of the work of literature are not the same person.
Plot - The arrangement of the events in a story, including the sequence in which they are told, the relative emphasis they are given, and the causal connections between events.
Point of view - The perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes.
Protagonist - The main character around whom the story revolves.
Setting - The location of a narrative in time and space. Setting creates mood or atmosphere.
Subplot - A secondary plot that is of less importance to the overall story but may serve as a point of contrast or comparison to the main plot.
Symbol - An object, character, figure, or color that is used to represent an abstract idea or concept. Unlike an emblem, a symbol may have different meanings in different contexts.
Syntax - The way the words in a piece of writing are put together to form lines, phrases, or clauses; the basic structure of a piece of writing.
Theme - A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work.
Tone - The author’s attitude toward the subject or characters of a story or poem or toward the reader.
Voice - An author’s individual way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes. An author communicates voice through tone, diction, and syntax....
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| 1. Ask Questions | 2. Collect Evidence | 3. Construct a Thesis | 4. Develop and Organize Arguments | 5. Write the Introduction | 6. Write the Body Paragraphs | 7. Write the Conclusion | Glossary of Literary Terms |
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