A scene within a story that shows or tells an event that occurred in the past.

A person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

A character or force in conflict with the main character.

The time and place of the action in a story.

The main character in a literary work.

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

A struggle or problem between opposing forces.

The outcome of the conflict in a plot.

In the plot of a story or drama, it introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation.

A reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art.

The turning point or moment of highest tension in the action of the plot.

The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story.

The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.

The central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work.

A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison between two unlike ideas.

A contradiction between what happens and what is expected.