prose fiction terms

• Allusion is a literary reference to a familiar person, place, thing or event
• setting is the time and place, a mood of a story
• Conflict (internal) is a problem, antagonist or struggles that take place within an individual character
• symbol is a thing that represents or stands for something else
• A character dynamic is an imaginary person that inhabits a literary work and undergoes substantial internal changes.
• An antagonist is the person or force working against the protagonist, or hero, of the work.
• an allusion is a literary reference to a familiar person, place, thing or event
• Irony (dynamic) is when the audience/readers know something important that the characters do not
• Conflict external is a struggle between a character and an outside force
• theme is a statement about life that the writer id trying to get across in a piece of literature
• Motif is a often repeated term, image or idea in literature that often develops into a larger theme
• character foil is Someone who serves as a contrast or challenge to another character
• characterisation (direct) is an information provided by the narrator about character(s)
• plot is a Sequence of events in a story
• Irony (situational) is Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning
• Flashback is returning to an earlier time for the purpose of making something in the present more clear
• POV is the perspective from which a story is told eg, first person, third person
• characterisation indirect is the method the author uses to create believable people (revealing characters through actions)
• Protagonist is Main character in a story
• Irony (verbal) using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning; verbal irony is in which the opposite is said from what is intended
• Character static character that undergoes no change
• Irony (situational)

  Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning
• character static

  A character that undergoes no change