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- rising action
- the author creates some sort of comflict for the protagonist
- Antagonist
- the character, force,or collection of forces that opposes the protagonist
- Antihero
- a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional heros
- Canon
- those works generally considered by scholars, critics, and teachers to be the most important to read and study
- Character
- a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work
- Conflict
- the struggle within the plot b/t opposing forces (prot. and antag.)
- Cultural criticism
- focuses on the historical as well as social, political, and economic contexts of a work
- formula fiction
- are the adventurek western, dectective, science fiction, and romance novels that entertain readers
- plot
- the authors arrangement of incidents in a story
- flashback
- a device that informs us about events that happened before the opening scene of a work
- exposition
- the background information tht reader needs to make sense of the situation in which the characters are placed
- foreshadowing
- suggest what is to come later by the introduction in earlier in the story
- hero
- central character who engages the readers interest and empathy
- heroine
- central character who engages the reader interest and empathy
- suspense
- reader is made anxious about what is going to happen
- climax
- the moment of greatest emotional tention
- resolution
- the conclusion of a plot's conflicts
- denouement
- french term meaning unraveling or unknotting used to describe the resolution of the plot following the climax
- showing
- allows the author to present a character talking and acting and lets the reader infer what kind of person the character is
- telling
- the author intervenes to describe and sometimes evaluate the character for the reader
- setting
- context in which the action of a story occurs
- in medias
- common strategy of beginning of the story in the middle of the action
- protagonist
- the main character of a narrative