Final Exam Lit terms 1 Review — Jaewon

The perspective or angle from which a story is told.

• Fable

• Point of view

• Tone

• Universal theme

Person created by the author to tell the story, affecting the way the story is told.

• Persona

• hyperbole

• Folktales

• Narrator

The viewpoint taken by an author who tells his story in third person and who, as the storyteller, “knows all”

• Persuasion

• Meter

• Figurative language

• Omniscient viewpoint

Viewpoint of a narrative in which the author tells the story in third person and “gets inside” only one of the characters, usually the central character.

• limited point of view

• Limited omniscient viewpoint

• Parallelism

• Moral

The point of view in which the author, as one of the characters, refers himself as I through the piece.

• Foil character

• Foreshadowing

• First person viewpoint

• Tragic flaw

A type or category of literature

• Genre

• Haiku

• Foot

• Iambic

A story that contains another story or an introductory story from which another story springs

• Free verse

• Flashback

• Idiom

• Frame stories

A short or narrative story of a single interesting or amusing incident.

• Eye rhyme

• Haiku

• Anecdote

• Allusion

a fictional story that employs authentic historical characters or settings.

• Historical fiction

• Action

• Third person point of view

• Rhyme scheme

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

• Prologue

• Plot twist

• Rhymed verse

• Plot