Birgel Literary Terms- Stories
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plot | Order of events in a story. This shapes the actions and gives the story focus. Consider HOW and WHY things happen the way they do in the stories you read. |
| Theme | The meaning behind or within a story; why the author writes. |
| Setting | Where the story takes place, (Where, when). This is often a very influential part of a story. |
| Point of View | How the story is told, whether it is from a character in the story, an outside narrator, or someone else. It can be told in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person. |
| Protagonist | The hero/heroine, the main character, a good character. |
| Antagonist | The villain in the story. |
| Narrator | The person/voice/something else that tells the story. |
| Conflict | The complication or problem that the protagonist is faced with. |
| Rising Action | The mounting conflict and additional problems that the protagonist works to solve. |
| Climax | The turning point in a narrative; the moment when the conflict is most intense. |
| Falling Action | The events that happen after the conflict is faced and somehow solved. |
| Resolution / Denouement | Falling action. |
| Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of a sentence or phrase's literal meaning. |
| Interior Monologue | A speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience, or character. This is during a story. |
| Framestory | A story within a story. |
| Main Character | The character who the story is about, usually the protagonist, usually the most described character who the reader relates to. |
| Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the readers but not by the characters in the story. |
| Verbal Irony | A figure of speech that occurs when a person says one thing but means another. |
| Symbolism | To have one thing that represents another thing. For example, a blue sky with a bright sun could mean that it is going to be a happy story. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other. |
| Foreshadowing | When the author hints, or says suggestive things, and then later in the story, the plot picks up on and elaborates on those hints. |
| Gothic | Writing that is dark, scary, and unearthly. |
| Unreliable Narrator | A narrator who is biased in some way and doesn't tell the real story. |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that lasts throughout the whole story. |
| Memoir | A true story about a certain portion of someone's life. It is usually interesting and has some sort of emotional pull. |
| Short Story | A story that is short. |
| Mystery | A story, usually about some sort of death or violence, where there is something that isn't being told to the characters that they need to figure out. |
| Biography | The story of someone's whole life, not written by the person whose life it's about. |
| Autobiography | The story of someone's whole life, written by the person whose life it is about. |
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