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- dynamic characters
- characters that change in a story due to physical or psychological challenges
- conventional symbol
- the symbol is not universal: it is a convention contrived by a particular population of people
- antagonist
- character that apposes or impedes the protagonist
- motif
- an image, object, character, situation, theme, even a word that the writer uses repeatedly throughout a work
- first-person participant
- the narrator is in the midst of the action
- equilibrium
- the main character's life in the beginning of the story is relatively calm
- first-person narrator
- the narrator has witnessed the events from his or her own perspective
- first-person observer
- the story is told from the periphery of the action
- universal symbol
- a symbol that could be used and recognized in all or almost all cultures
- setting
- the locale in which you find the characters
- static characters
- characters that remain unchanged throughout a story
- sympathetic characters
- characters who appeal to us and have our good wishes
- plots
- the main story or side stories
- limited omniscience
- the third-person narrator tells us the thoughts of only one character
- flashback
- narrator begins at the end, and tells the story leading up to it
- stream of consciousness
- the flux of thoughts that run through our minds when we are awake
- symbol
- an object that represents something else, sometimes another object but more often an abstraction
- unreliable
- the narrator is naive, dim-witted, mentally handicapped, dishonest, or extremely prejudiced
- allegory
- special use of symbolism. in "this" characters or objects have a one-to-one correspondence with whatever they represent
- central consciousness
- the perceptions of the events given voice by the narrator are the perceptions of the character
- omniscient
- there is no limit to what the third-person narrator knows
- enveloping action
- the equilibrium is disrupted due to a problem and begins the rising action
- projection
- setting might also serve as a window onto the emotional state of a character
- narrator
- the person who tells the story
- protagonist
- the main character of a story, the person you would say the story is about
- point of view
- the same event will sound different when told by different people
- theme
- what that story is about, though not in a literal sense
- interior monologue
- a writer using stream of consciousness approximates the thoughts of a character
- characters
- the purpose the story is told
- literary symbol
- an object with symbol meaning limited to the very narrow context of a particular work of literature
- third-person narrator
- the narrator isn't a character