Mid-Term Terms

2. The set of conflicts in a story that lead up to the climax.
5. The height of conflict and intrigue in a narrative.
6. Narrative indications that often accompany dialogue in fiction to provide information about the speakers, the quality and tone of speech, the environment, etc.
7. A way of communicating information (in writing, images, or sound) that conveys an attitude.
8. A collection of events featured in a story that are placed in a certain order and recounted to tell a story.
9. A complete chronological sequence of interconnected events.
13. An important life lesson that the story presents in its plot.
14. The time, place, and conditions in which the action of a story takes place and which establish its context.
17. An object or element incorporated into a narrative to represent another concept or concern. Broadly, representing one thing with another.
18. The primary character in a text, often positioned as “good” or the character with whom readers are expected to identify.
20. The action in a story that occurs after the climax, thus moving it toward its resolution.
22. The action of solving a conflict at the end of the plot.
23. The direction of a story's main events and incidents and how they relate to one another.

1. Language that does not mean exactly what it states but instead requires the reader to make his or her own association from the comparison.
3. The conversations between characters in a literary work, typically enclosed within quotation marks.
4. The ways individual characters are represented by the narrator or author of a text. This includes descriptions of the characters’ physical appearances, personalities, actions, interactions, and dialogue.
10. To give a suggestion of something that will happen in the story.
11. A character in a text who the protagonist opposes.
12. A struggle, disagreement, or difference between opposing forces in a literary work, usually resolved by the end of the work.
14. The narrative representation of events by compressing their duration.
15. A narrative that claims to represent characters, events, and environments drawn from the lifeworld of writers and readers.
16. Usually located at the beginning of a text, this is a detailed discussion introducing characters, setting, background information, etc. readers might need to know in order to understand the text that follows.
19. A narrative that represents imagined (or partially imagined) characters, events, and environments.
21. The person or character who tells and explains a story.