Literary Vocabulary Task

3. The process through which the author reveals to the reader the qualities of a character.
7. The story line or organization of events or episodes within a story.
8. Highly exaggerated or improbable story.
11. The storyteller.
12. A manner of speaking or variation on a language peculiar to an individual, a people, a social class or a geographic region.
13. The perspective from which a story is seen or told.
15. The stated or (more commonly) implied lesson of a story.
17. The section immediately following the climax and lasting until the end of the story.
18. A moment of significant realization and insight experienced by the protagonist, often at the end of a story.
19. Detail in a story that is specific to a geographic region or an environment,
20. The "unknotting" or resolution of the plot or conflict.

1. An incident or event within the main plot of the story.
2. The major character or force that opposes the protagonist.
4. A brief, direct, or indirect reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or mythology that the author hopes or assumes the reader will recognize.
5. Any subject matter or techniques that create a “true to life" impression for the reader.
6. Both a fictional person in a story, and the moral, dispositional and behavioral qualities of that fictional person.
9. These are concrete details and figures of speech that help the reader form vivid impressions of the subject of the writing.
10. Protagonist of a story who possesses qualities, such as courage, or virtues, such as honesty.
14. A story ending in which there is no clear outcome, result or resolved conflict.
16. See motivation