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- Point of view
- perspective from which a story is told
- 1st person pov.
- one of the characters is the narrator telling the story, using the pronoun "I"
- 3rd person limited pov.
- the narrator who plays NO part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of just one character, uses the "he/she" form
- omniscient pov.
- all knowing - the narrator knows everything there is to know about the characters and their conflicts; uses the "he/she" form
- archetype
- a character, setting, plot, or image that occurs frequently in literature
- flashback
- a scene that interrupts the action to show an event from the past
- foreshadowing
- the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot
- suspense
- uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story
- mood
- the way a story makes a reader fell
- tone
- the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
- dialect
- way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a group of people
- symbol
- person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself
- simile
- a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
- metaphor
- a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes the other
- characterization
- process an author uses to reveal the personality of a character
- direct characterization
- author directly tells the reader what the characters personality is
- indirect characterization
- author reveals a characters personality through the characters own words, thoughts, and actions, and those of other characters
- imagery
- language that appeals to the scenses
- personification
- a kind of metaphor in which a non-human quality were talked about as if it were human