Literary Texts

4. A developing character, usually at the center of the action, who changes or grows to a new awareness of life.
7. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
8. Person The story is told from the first person "I” personal point-of-view, usually that of the main character.
11. Imagery of smell.
12. The central idea or theme of the play, used by the playwright to illustrate some truth.
13. The repetition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words.
15. The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words close together.
17. Imagery of touch.
18. Imagery that deals with the movement or action of objects or people.
20. A story told in the third person in which the narrative voice is associated with a major or minor character who is not able to “see/know” all, may only be able to relate the thoughts of one or some characters but not others, may not know what happened “off stage” or in the past.

1. A complex, fully-developed character, usually prone to change.
2. Imagery of sight.
3. A concrete object/image that stand for an abstract subject.
5. A literary work in which the symbols, characters, and events come to represent, in a somewhat point-to-point fashion, a different metaphysical, political, or social situation.
6. Imagery of taste.
9. The character with whom the protagonist is engaged in a struggle.
10. Everything that is seen or heard on stage.
11. A story told in the third person; the narrator's knowledge, control, and prerogatives are unlimited, allowing “authorial” subjectivity.
14. The type of imagery that deals with creating a specific feeling or emotion within the reader.
16. These can be either round or flat characters, but they do not change during the story.
19. A one-dimensional character, typically not central to the story.