Literary Terms 11-20.
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- foil
- one who is in most ways opposite to the main character
- dynamic character
- one who changes by the end of the story, learning something that changes him or her in a permanent way
- round character
- fully developed; readers may even be able to anticipate the actions of a round character if the characterization is well done and consistent
- second person point of view
- a story told using "you" which places the reader immediately and personally into the story
- flat character
- we know very little about this kind of character
- third person omniscient point of view
- the narrator uses third person pronouns (he/she/they etc) and is god-like: all knowing.
- third person limited point of view
- the narrator tells the story using third person pronouns but limits herself to what one character can sense
- objective point of view
- the narrator does not judge or interpret in any way. he/she simply presents the story as if recording it on film as it happens.
- first person point of view
- the narrator, usually the protagonist, tells the story from his/her perspective using I, me, we, etc.
- static character
- one who does not change; he or she is the same person at the end of the story as he was at the beginngin