Literary Terms for Prose

A character that does not change during the story.

"I was not there, yet I was there."(3)

Told from one characters point of view using he, she, it.

When a character struggles with him or her self.

The act of creating and developing a character.

Told from one characters point of view using I and me.

All of the events leading to the end of the story.

Feeling the author wants the reader to feel.

The author directly states a character's traits.

Anything that stands for something else as well as its literal meaning.

Told from more than one characters point of view using he, she, it.

A complex character with many traits.

Central idea of a work of literature

When a character struggles with outside forces.

A person in a literary work.

When we have to put clues together to figure out what a character is like.

"his godmother became as immobile as a great stone."(3)

The author stops the action of the story to go back to a previous event.

The final unwinding or resolving of the conflicts in the story.

"I'm a old hog"(83)

A character who causes conflict with the main character of a story.

High point of the story.

The sequence of events in a story.

When and where a story takes place.

Author's attitude toward their subject.

The kitchen table, window, back door, and food in A Lesson Before Dying

The main character of a story.

Used for giving directions but not if formal writing.

Refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning.

A character who represents one trait of a social group: jocks, preps, nerds.

Which of the following is considered to be prose?

Problems and conflicts leading to the climax of a story.

A character that shows very few traits.

Introduction of setting, conflict, and theme of a story.

A character that changes during the story.

We have to put together clues to figure out what a character is like.

Which of these is an example of prose?

"A little further over, where another patch of cane was standing, tall and blue-green"(105)

A contradiction of terms using only two words

When the author gives clues about what will happen in the future.