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2. characters are usually minor characters who are barely developed or may be stereotypes.
4. or denouement the outcome of the story--the information that ties up all (or many) of the story's loose ends.
6. 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.
10. the angle from which a story is told; i.e., the type of narrator the author chooses to use
13. characters are usually main characters and are fully developed so that the reader can understand their personality and motivations.
14. 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.
15. a fictional representation of a person (or animal). Characters may be described as either flat or round.
17. the scene which presents the story's decisive action;
18. foil is a character who serves to contrast with another character. A hypocritical character, for example, may help emphasize the hero/heroine's honesty.
19. the historical, physical, geographical, and psychological location where a fictional work takes place

1. 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
3. a story with two parallel and consistent levels of meaning, on literal and one figurative
5. the explanation of the story's premise and background material necessary for the reader to understand the story;
7. the way in which the narrative events are arranged. Generally, plots have the same basic elements:
8. first-person narration the narrator uses "I" to tell his or her story. The first-person narrator may be a major character in the story or simply an observer. In third-person narration narrators are not actually characters in the story.
9. the way a writer selects and arranges words to express ideas
11. third-person narrators can reveal the thoughts of all their characters; they are "all-knowing."
12. the attitude of the speaker or author of a work toward the subject matter
15. the peak in the story's action--the moment of highest dramatic tension;
16. limited omniscient narrator only reveals the thoughts and feelings of one (or possibly a limited few) character(s).
18. objective third-person narrator does not reveal anyone's thoughts and provides the sort of external, objective information that a camera (or an objective reporter) might record.
20. the central or dominant idea of a work of fiction