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Lit terms 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aside | Is a comment on stage to the audience that other characters due his experience |
| Character Progression | The way in which a character grows as a person due to his experiences in a story |
| Dynamic, or well-rounded | Character that is realistic and grows and changes |
| Mood (tone, atmosphere) | The feeling of a story (humorous, dark and scary, mysterious, etc.) |
| Suspense | Created by a writer to keep the audience wondering what will happen next and creates a certain tone or mood |
| Point of view or narrator | They way in which a story is told (3 methods) |
| 3rd person limited point of view or narrator | The narrator is someone outside the story. They are more reliable with the information they give, but they do not share everything, like what the character is thinking |
| 1st Person point of view or narrator | A character in the story is narrator - a reader should not believe everything they are told completely |
| Static, flat or two dimensional | Character that is a stereotype or does not change |
| Protagonist | Main character or characters that face and solve the conflict of the story |
| Antagonist | Any important character that may cause or add to the conflict |
| Irony | The opposite of what is expected |
| Verbal Irony | When a person says the opposite of what is actually meant |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows that the opposite of what the character expects will soon occur |
| 3rd person omniscient | Point of view or narrator - the narrator is someone outside the story. They are more reliable with the information they give, and do not share all information, like what the character is thinking |