Commonly used term in Comp and Lit
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| Round Character | A well-developed character; closely involved in and responsive to the action
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| Flat Character | A barely developed character; stereotypical
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| Dynamic Character | Characters that grow and change throughout the story
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| Static Character | Characters that face the same challenges of a dynamic character yet remain essentially unchanged
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| Unreliable Narrators | Misrepresent events and misdirect readers
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| Style | The way in which a writer uses language and selects the arranging of words
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| Tone | The attitude of the narrator or author of a work toward the subject matter, characters, or audience
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| Imagery | Words of phrases that describe what is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched
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| Formal Diction | Characterized by elaborate, complex sentences; a learned vocabulary
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| Informal Diction | Consistent with everyday speech, is characterized by slang and contractions
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| Plot | is more than what happens, it is how what happens is revealed, the way in which the story's events are arranged
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| Motivation | The reasons behind a characters behavior or we will not believe or accept the behavior
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| Metaphor | Figures of speech that compare two dissimilar items
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| Stock Character | Characters easily identifiable who behave so predictably that readers can readily recognize them
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| Symbol | Symbols are so much apart of the human experience that they are likely to suggest the same thing to most people (Example: a rose suggests love)
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