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Allegory
A narrative in which persons, places, and events form a system of clearly identifiable equivalents.
Antagonist
A character who stands in direct opposition to the protagonist, both restricting and inciting action.
Archetype
A literary symbol, motif, image, or character which tends to elicit a common response from peoples of widely separated time and space.
Character
One of the persons in the story which can be "flat" or "rounded".
Conflict
The struggle which grows out of the interplay between two opposing forces.
Epiphany
A moment when the essential nature of something is perceived.
Foreshadowing
The use of incidents, characters, tone, imagery, dialogue, and symbolism to suggest what lies ahead.
Irony
An expression wherein the actual intent is expressed in words or gestures which carry a different or opposite meaning.
Metaphor
An implied comparison whereby the thing at hand is figuratively asserted to be something else.
Motif
The underlying pattern of repetition in a literary work, unifying it and give it meaning.
Plot
A paradigmatic arrangement of events into cause and effect. This is in contrast to story, which is a narrative of events in their time sequence.
Protagonist
The chief character in literature or film.
Setting
A story's location in time and place as well as climate.
Symbol
On the most literal level, something which is itself and yet stands for something more.
Verneinung
A German term meaning "denial". Denotes a phenomenon of consciousness whereby truth is often derived from a person's protestations to the opposite.
Anti-hero
The protagonist of modern literature or film, who, having both good and bad qualities, deviates from the model of virtue we usually find in the popular hero.
Analysis
The breaking down of something into its parts or functions to show how those smaller parts make up the whole
Epistemology
A branch of philosophy that investigates the nature and limits of human knowledge
Eros
The Greek god of love who represents the self-sustaining drive in humans, rather than the self-destructive one.
Metadrama
Literature which takes on its own dramatic processes as a thematic issue
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which some phenomenon is identified by the name of something closely associated with the phenomenon itself.
Mimesis
A theory of art which places primary emphasis on the one-for-one correspondence between some phenomenon and its representation in literature.
Minimalism
Modern literature characterized by its striking simplicity in presentation, impersonal tone, and abstract plot.
Personification
An expression in art wherein animals, nature, inanimate objects, ideas, abstractions, and gods are given human form, character, sensibilities, and frailties.
Pluralism
A term applied to a philosophical belief that there is no single set of truths or laws, giving validity to the perceptions of each unique mind.
Phenomenology
A philosophy that rejects the popular assumption that objects exist independent of human experience.
Reversal
A change in fortune experienced by the protagonist form good to bad, bad to worse, or bad to good.
Satire
Criticism of vice and folly typically aimed at human institutions, designed to inspire change.
Theme
A generalization about human life that can be drawn from the conflict and resolution of a literary work.