literature terms

Prose, Poetry, and Drama

• Genre

• Frame stories

• Anecdote

• Historical fiction

Story inside of a story

• Frame stories

• Anecdote

• Omniscient P.O.V

• Limited P.O.V

Short narrative of a single interesting or amusing incident

• Limited P.O.V

• Historical fiction

• Anecdote

• Genre

Fictional story employing real characters and settings from a time period

• Conflict

• Auto biography

• Dialogue

• Historical fiction

Relates only what the narrator character can know

• First person P.O.V

• Third person P.O.V

• Omniscient P.O.V

• Limited P.O.V

Anything from impersonal narrators who remain unnamed to characters in the story who have their own highly-developed personalities

• Genre

• Persona

• Static character

• dynamic character

A series of events arranged to produce a definite sense of movement toward a specific goal

• Plot twist

• sub-plot

• prologue

• Plot

A secondary plot within a piece of literature that accompanies the main plot yet is lesser in importance or signifance

• rhyme

• Subplot

• plot

• poetry

A plot development that violates the reader's expectations

• Plot twist

• plot

• prose

• subplot

The point at which the plot reaches the moment of highest emotional intensity.

• ballad

• chiasmus

• Climax

• act