literary terms
Allusion
indirect or passing referance to some event, person, place, or artistic work.
Antagonist
The bad guy of the story.
Atmosphere
the mood of a story
Character
the traits of a person in a work or fiction
Characterization
the representation of people in narrative and dramtic works.
Cliché
a phrase regarded as unoriginal/trite due to overuse.
Complication
what interferes with the protagonists achieving of their motivations.
Conflict
Clash of motivations in a work/fiction.
Conventions
An established practice - either in technique, style, structure, or subject matter.
Dénouement
the clearing up of the complications of the plot in a play or story.
Diction
The choice of words used in a literary work.
Exposition
The opening part of a play or story, introducing us to characters and their situations.
Fiction
the term for non-real stories.
Figurative Language
Language that is not literal, it employs figures of speech.
Figure of speech
an expression that lets go of accepted literal sense or from the normal order of words.
First person narrator
a story-teller who are theirselves in the story.