Meanings Flashcards
Limited omniscient point of view
A kind of telling in which the narrator presents a story from the perspective of only one character or less frequently two with access only to what that character says thinks hears and feels
Genre
A category into which literary works are classified according to form technique and conventions examples of modern genres are novel essays and short story
Flat Character
A character who presents a single or very limited number of traits these characters are also called one-dimensional characters.
Dynamic character
A character who changes during the course of a literary work the change may be physical psychological and or behavioral.
Falling action
The actions that follow the climax and lead to a resolution of a plot.
Conflict
The struggle or tension between two or more opposing forces in a narrative
Climax
A term used to refer to the point of greatest tension in the development of a narrative but it is a point at which a crisis is reached concerning the conflict and after which at least some degree of resolution is achieved it is also referred to as a crisis
Antagonist
A character who opposes a protagonist
Chronological order
The order in which events occur according to the time at which they happened in the narrative. This order is often changed by the narrator.
Omniscient point of view
A type of telling using an all-knowing narrator who has total control of the telling and knows everything about all the characters’ events and situations
Perspective
In narratology, the position from which a narrative is told or perceived. This position is always inevitably subjective and can be inferred from choices of language use and context.
Plot
A term that refers to the structured sequence of events in a narrative
Protagonist
The main character of a literary work
Reader
The receiver of a written text considered by some theorists to be a co-author of the text
Round character
A fictitious being easily visualized by the reader because the writer has provided him or her with a number of qualities and traits; a complex character
Setting
The time and place in which a narrative takes place it includes references to time and location as well as an intangible aspect which includes social values norms beliefs and so forth
Short story
A relatively brief narrative written in prose usually used to categorize a sub-genre of fiction.
Static character
A character who does not experience significant changes within the narrative.
Stock character
A kind of literary character that is immediately familiar and recognizable to readers such as a brave hero the naive maiden and the evil stepmother and so forth.
Stream of consciousness
A narrative technique that shows how a given character’s mind works by means of reproducing the flow of thought recollections in sensations of a character it uses disruptions of time and disjointed images.
Theme
Is central or dominating idea or statement about life that is presented either explicitly or implicitly in a literary work.
Third person point of view
When a narrative is told by voice that uses to pronoun she or he.
This type of perspective supposedly provides the narrative with considerable objectivity because it establishes a distance between the narration and the character.
Rising action
The part of a plot that develops the conflict to the point of crisis
Point of view
The perspective from which a narrative is told
