Meanings

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Limited omniscient point of view

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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

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Genre

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A category into which literary works are classified according to form technique and conventions examples of modern genres are novel essays and short story

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Flat Character

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A character who presents a single or very limited number of traits these characters are also called one-dimensional characters.

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Dynamic character

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A character who changes during the course of a literary work the change may be physical psychological and or behavioral.

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Falling action

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The actions that follow the climax and lead to a resolution of a plot.

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Conflict

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The struggle or tension between two or more opposing forces in a narrative

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Climax

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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

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Antagonist

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A character who opposes a protagonist

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Chronological order

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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.

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Omniscient point of view

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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

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Perspective

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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.

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Plot

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A term that refers to the structured sequence of events in a narrative

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Protagonist

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The main character of a literary work

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Reader

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The receiver of a written text considered by some theorists to be a co-author of the text

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Round character

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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

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Setting

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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

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Short story

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A relatively brief narrative written in prose usually used to categorize a sub-genre of fiction.

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Static character

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A character who does not experience significant changes within the narrative.

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Stock character

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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.

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Stream of consciousness

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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.

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Theme

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Is central or dominating idea or statement about life that is presented either explicitly or implicitly in a literary work.

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Third person point of view

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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.

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Rising action

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The part of a plot that develops the conflict to the point of crisis

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Point of view

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The perspective from which a narrative is told