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Novels A Presentation
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Abbreviation The Shortened form of a word or phrase
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Anti-Structure A term to describe a narrative structure that deliberately appears unconstructed and chaotic, apparently without an overall plan.
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Caricature An exaggerated or distorted portrait of a character, presented as such for comic or satirical effect.
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Catastrophe The final phase of a tragedy, involving suffering and death.
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Character A person in a novel, film, play or other work of fiction and the qualities they posses.
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Characterisation The description of the distinctive qualities a character possesses.
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Chronology The order of events in a narrative.
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Conventions The traditional rules of writing in a particular genre.
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Crisis The turning point in a narrative or drama which moves the plot in a new direction.
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Declarative A type of sentence which makes a statement.
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Dénouement The closing sequence of a narrative or drama, in which events are explained or resolved.
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Dialect A form of language with its own terminology, grammar and pronunciation; often regional or resolved.
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Diction The language a writer gives to a character; the choice of words in a literary text, also sometimes called a lexis or vocabulary.
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Figurative Language Words that are not being used literally in the text, such as in metaphors or similes, often suggesting a comparison between two things.
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Flashback A narrative device where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
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Genetic Features The distinctive characteristics of a particular genre.
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Main Plot The principle events in a drama or a narrative.
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Narrative A construct in which a sequence of events is selected and recounted for an audience, in speech, writing or visual media; a story.
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Plot The main sequence of events in a story.
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Point of View The perspective from which a story is told.
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Protagonist The leading character in a story or play.
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Second Person Narrative
A writer’s technique for presenting a story be addressing the reader as ‘you’.
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Setting The time, location and circumstances where a narrative or drama occurs.
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Subplot A secondary sequence of events in a story, often involving supporting characters.
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Synopsis A brief summary of a work of fiction.
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Theme The ideas or issues raised by the story in a narrative or drama.
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Third Person Narrative
A technique for presenting a story in the writer’s voice, referring to the characters as ‘he’, ‘she’, and’ ‘they.’
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Tyrant A cruel and oppressive ruler.
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Unreliable Narrator A narrator who has a partial or biased rule of the event’s s/he reports and therefore cannot be trusted by the reader to be objective.
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