Central topic subject or concept author is trying to point out. Possible to be more than one in a singe work.
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Symbol
Object that represents an idea, process, or physical entity. Used to communicate meaning.
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Suprise Ending
Plot twist that occurs at or near end of a story.
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style
Way in which author tells a story including dictation choice, sentence types and literary devices and techniques.
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Stock
Fictional character based of common literary of social stereotype.
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Stereotype
Belief adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things.
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Static Character
Character who does not undergo any significant change in nature, values, or emotions, in contrast to a dynamic character.
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Slang
Use of informal words and expressions not considered standard in speakers’ language or dialect.
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Round Character
Character with complex and fully developed personality
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Rising Action
Stories basic conflict complicated by secondary conflicts that frustrates protagonists attempt to reach his goal.
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Resolution
In poetry the solution to the problem presented in the first part of the sonnet, in fiction see denouement.
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plot
Sequence of events that make up a story.
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Objective point of view
Unbiased POV without describes character’s thoughts opinions or feelings.
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Modernism
Various movements in art, architecture, literature… characterized by deliberate break with classical and traditional forms of methods of expression.
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Marxism
the ideas, theories and methods of Karl Marx, the political and economic theories propounded bu Mark together with friedrich Engels, later developed by their followers to form the bais.
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Indeterminate ending
Ending that is neither happy or unhappy.
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Idiom
An expression or phrase that makes figurative but not literal sense.
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Hero
The protagonist, the term often implies nobility of character or great purpose.
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Foil
A character who’s contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the order of the other character.
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Flat Character
A relatively uncomplicated character who does not change throughout the course of a work; contrasts around with round character.
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Feminism
Advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social, and economic rights of the female sex; the movement associated with this.
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Falling Action
The point in the narrative after the climax where the conflict is resolved.
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Dynamic Character
A character who undergoes a significant change in their nature, values or emotions; contrasting to a static character.
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Denouement
The part of the story
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Aestetieism
The quality of being aesthetic; the pursuit of or devotion to what is beautiful
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Character
The representation of a person in a narrative work of art.
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climax
The point of highest tension or
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conflict
The central tension between the protagonist and antagonist
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