Basic Library Terms

1. - a fictional representation of a person (or animal). Characters may be described as either flat or round.
4. - the historical, physical, geographical, and psychological location where a fictional work takes place.
6. - a person, object, action, place, or event that in addition to its literal or denotative meanings suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings.
8. - the way in which the narrative events are arranged. Generally, plots have the same basic elements.
9. - the central or dominant idea of a work of fiction.

2. - a story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning, on literal and one figurative.
3. - the attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject matter.
4. Story - a fictional narrative generally centering on one climactic event and usually developing only a single character in depth; its scope is narrower than that of a novel.
5. - an extended narrative in prose. Typically the novel relates to a series of events or follows the history of a character or group of characters through a period of time.
6. - the way a writer selects and arranges words to express ideas.
7. Point Of View - the angle from which a story is told; i.e., the type of narrator the author chooses to use.