Unit 1 #2 Literary Terms Flashcards
A person, animal, thing, or natural force appearing in a lit work
Character
A one-dimensional character, often revealing a single personal quality and staying the same throughout the story
Flat Character
A fully developed character who is complex, revealing several sides to his/her personality and growing and changing as the story progresses
Round Character
A character who opposes the main character or who is against the main character
Antagonist
The main character in the story
Protagonist
The time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur
Setting
The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem
Plot
The vantage point from which a narrative is told
Point of View
The story is told by one of the characters in his or her own words—use of first person pronouns
First Person
The narrator is not a character in the story at all but is telling about the characters in the story—use of third person pronouns
Third Person
Narrator focuses on only one character
Third Person Limited
Narrator focuses on all the characters
Third Person Omniscient
The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to convey in a lit work
Theme
A terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life
Aphorism
A book of months and days for one year with weather predictions, a wide variety of miscellaneous info, and proverbs
Almanac
