Novel Key Terms

Genre

A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Narrator

a person who narrates something, especially a character, who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.

Perspective

a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view

Point of View

the position from which something or someone is observed

Archetype

a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, mythology

Structure

the organized framework that arranges a work’s elements, such as plot, characters, themes, and setting, into a coherent whole.

plot

the sequence of interconnected events and actions that make up a story’s structure, driven by a cause-and-effect relationship between events.