1. Literary Terms

2. Plot
Sequence of events in a story.

3. Climax
High point of interest in the story

4. Anachronism
Placing something in a time period/era where it does not belong.

5. Antihero
A protagonist who is particularly graceless, inept, stupid, or dishonest

6. Apology
A written or spoken defense (I’m sorry)

7. Archetype
A blocked off memory of our past or of pre-human experience; a type of struggle; a character to which a culture relates to without prior knowledge.

8. Clash/Struggle between opposing forces Man vs. Man Man vs. Himself
Conflict
Clash/Struggle between opposing forces
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Himself
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Society

9. Catharsis
A moral or spiritual cleansing you receive when watching a protagonist overcome a great odds to survive.

10. Controlling Image/Motif
An image or theme that runs throughout the story/novel/work

11. Diction
Word choice; denotation – dictionary definition; connotation – all the emotions the word brings

12. Doppelganger
A mysterious twin or a double fighting against your good work. Someone who looks just like you! 

13. Dystopia
A bad place. An imaginary world which was constructed to be perfect, yet it failed and became a very unpleasant place.

14. A perfect world (…usually becomes a dystopia)
Utopia
A perfect world (…usually becomes a dystopia)

15. Epiphany
A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood

16. Euphemism
the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

17. A particular type or category of writing, music, art, etc.
Genre
A particular type or category of writing, music, art, etc.

18. Hamartia
It means an error, mistake, or misstep. The protagonist’s hamartia will cause his/her downfall.

19. Imagery
Descriptive details in a work that use figures of speech to explain people or things.

20. Moral – the message/lesson to be learned
Theme/Moral
Theme – the ideas that the author wants the reader to take from the story.
Moral – the message/lesson to be learned

21. The emotional feeling of the setting
Mood/Atmosphere
The emotional feeling of the setting

22. A self-contradictory combination of words
Oxymoron
A self-contradictory combination of words

23. A summary of the main points in a story/essay
Synopsis
A summary of the main points in a story/essay

24. The omission of one or more words
Ellipsis/Ellipse
The omission of one or more words

25. Paradox
A statement that seems to contradictory or absurd; however, it is found to be true!