main character who is involved in the central conflict; character usually changes in some way after the central conflict reaches a climax; character is sometimes a hero

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a character or force in conflict with the main character

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this character is fully developed; the writer reveals good and bad traits as well as background

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two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a word

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a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change

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a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude

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a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

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a person in a piece of writing or other media who is strongly characterized by membership to a recognizable group, such as race or gender

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a graphic organizer which helps a person to visualize the plot of a story; it consists of five parts; the exposition, inciting incident, rising actions, climax, and resolution

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a narrative device, often used at the beginning of the work, that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

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time, place, and social location of a text

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the event that introduces the central conflict

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the series of struggles that builds a story or play towards a climax

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the most intense, exciting, or important point of a text; a culmination or apex

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the point at which the central conflict is ended or resolved

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the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved

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characters are often damaged, disturbed, delusional grotesques

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a reference to something that simultaneously invokes in the audience a feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity

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told from the viewpoint of on of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "we"

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correct language characterized by directness and simplicity

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represents the plain language of everyday use, and often includes idiomatic expressions, slang, contractions, and many simple, common words

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language that is lofty, dignified, and impersonal

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point-of-view in which an all-knowing narrator is privy to the thoughts and feelings of all characters

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the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

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the narrator addresses the reader directly using the pronoun "you"

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