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| Question | Answer |
| Mimetic vs. Didactic | Mimetic: Reflects something in life. Didactic: Teaches something. |
| Escapist vs. Interpretive Literature | Escapist: it takes us out of reality interpretive is the reality of the world |
| Exposition | Beginning of story, characters, setting and a brief introduction to the issue. |
| Rising Action | The events leading up to the climax. Between exposition and climax. |
| Climax | The most intense, exciting point of a story. |
| Falling Action | The event leading up to the resolution. Between climax and resolution. |
| Resolution | The part of the story’s plot line where the conflict in the story is resolved. End of the story |
| Suspense | The anticipation, anxiety and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a story. |
| Foreshadowing | A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. |
| Dramatic Irony | Irony in which the audience is aware of something the characters in the story are not aware of. |
| Situational Irony | Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. |
| Verbal Irony | Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. |
| Point Of View | First Person Third Person Third Person Omniscient Third Person Limited |
| First Person | Point of view where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing. ‘I’ and ‘we’ are used. |
| Third Person Omniscient | Point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters. The author may move from character to character. |
| Third Person Limited | The narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they,' 'he,' and 'she.' |
| Third Person | Uses pronouns like he, she, it, or they. |
| Characterization | Process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. |
| Direct Characterization | The author specifically reveals traits about the character in a direct, straightforward manner. |
| Indirect Characterization | When the author indirectly portrays characters using dialogue, appearance, actions, relationships, and overall place in the world. |
| Round vs. Flat Characters | Flat Characters: Two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated. Round Characters: Complex, and have depth. |
| Static vs. Dynamic Characters | Static Characters: The personality of that character when he is introduced is the same personality when the story comes to a close. Dynamic Characters: Undergo development, and change in some way. |
| Theme | General statement about the world. Be able to distinguish a theme from a topic or a moral; moral: lesson |
| Symbolism | Something is used to represent something else. |
| Metaphor | A comparison without using ‘like’ or ‘as.’ |
| Simile | A comparison using ‘like’ or ‘as.’ |
| Personification | The attribution of human traits things or living beings which are not human. |
| Connotations vs. Denotations | Connotation: An idea or feeling which a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. Denotation: The literal or primary meaning of a word; the dictionary definition. |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language. |
| Epic Poem | An epic poem is extended, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of people. |
| Epic Simile | An epic simile is a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length. |
| Epic Hero | An epic hero is a character who is brave and noble, admired for great achievements or affected by grand events. His or her heroic actions are usually central to his/her culture, race, or nation. |
| Epic Journey | The journey of an epic hero consists of a quest for something of great value which is used to prove the hero’s worthiness, usually by the gods, and supernatural obstacles and creatures. |
| Epic Epithet | Epic epithets are characteristic of the style of ancient epic poetry. In literature, an epithet is a literary device that describes a person, place or thing in such a way that it brings out or makes prominent the typical characteristic of the person, place or thing described. |
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