AP Lit List Two

a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work

• setting

• theme

• round character

• flat character

Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions.

• round character

• first person point of view

• indirect characterization

• theme

Background information presented in a literary work.

• climax

• falling action

• exposition

• denouement

a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted

• DeeBaby

• first person pov

• unreliable narrator

• objective point of view

A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.

• rising action

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

Narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts.

• first person pov

• third person limited

• third person objective

• third person omniscient

the turning point of the story

• climax

• rising action

• denouement

• falling action

narrator knows everything in the story and reveals the thoughts of all the characters

• first person

• third person omniscient

• third person limited

• third person objective

the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved

• DeeBaby

• resolution

• falling action

• rising action

The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but he can't tell us the thoughts of the characters.

• first person pov

• third person objective

• third person limited

• third person limited