English Review

Term for the main character in a work, whether male or female, heroic or not heroic.

A narrator that relates the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of only one character.

A character that does not change throughout the story. 

A character or a nonhuman force that opposes or is in conflict with the protagonist.

The point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing.

The perspective from which people, events, and other details in a work of fiction are viewed.

The time and place of the action in a work of fiction, poetry, or drama.

An action that sets a plot in motion by creating conflict.

A narrator that relates the inner thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.

Introduces, identifies characters; the beginning of a story. Scattered throughout the work.

Plot-structuring device where a scene from the future is inserted into the present.

A character that is limited in his/her emotional range. Not complicated.

Part of plot where the conflict is made stable once more.

A conflict that puts a character against something or someone outside himself or herself.

plot-structuring device where a scene from the past is inserted into the present.

The second part of plot; events complicate the situation, making conflict worse..

A developed character who shows multiple emotions and motivations.

A character that goes through some sort of change from the beginning to the end of the story.

An imaginary personage who acts, appears, or is referred to in a literary work.

When the conflicting forces are two drives, impulses, or parts of a single character.

Part of plot in which the conflict or conflicts move toward resolution.

The insight about a topic communicated in a literary work.

A struggle between opposing forces.

Narrator who consistently refers to himself or herself using the first-person pronoun.

The five main parts of narrative, the term that describes the entire structure of action.