Literary Terms #1

The character or force in a drama (play) or work of fiction (story) whose actions oppose those of the protagonist

• protagonist

• Narrator

• Antagonist

• Novella

A close examination of the behavior and motivation of a character

• Denouement

• Character Analysis

• Epigraph

• structure

The point toward which the action of a plot builds as the conflicts become increasingly intense or complex ; the turning point

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

Literally, the "untying" ; the resolution of the conflicts following the Climax (or crisis) of a plot

• Style

• symbol

• Epigraph

• Denouement

A quotation at the beginning of a poem, novel, play or essay that suggests the theme of the work

• Denouement

• Epigraph

• Plot

• Novella

The part of the play or story after the climax, in which the consequences of the conflict are revealed

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Resolution

The person who tells the story to the audience or reader

• character Analysis

• Novella

• Narrator

• point of View

A work of prose fiction of less than 100 pages

• Epigraph

• Thesis

• symbol

• Novella

A series of related events that occur in a story or play. (The details of what happened of the play or story.)

• Thesis

• Plot

• structure

• Theme

The angle or perspective from which a Story is reported and interpreted

• Thesis

• Plot

• point of view

• Theme