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The point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is.
Industry:Literature
The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story. See Plot.
Industry:Literature
The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist. See Recognition and also Irony.
Industry:Literature
The angle of vision from which a story is narrated. See Narrator. A work's point of view can be: first person, in which the narrator is a character or an observer, respectively; objective, in which the narrator knows or appears to know no more than the reader; omniscient, in which the narrator knows everything about the characters; and limited omniscient, which allows the narrator to know some things about the characters but not everything.
Industry:Literature
The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. See Conflict, Climax, Denouement, and Flashback.
Industry:Literature
A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation
Industry:Literature
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze. Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" includes personification.
Industry:Literature
A brief story that teaches a lesson often ethical or spiritual. See Fable.
Industry:Literature
The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Industry:Literature
An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work."
Industry:Literature
