82) Narrator: one who narrates, or tells, a story
83) Naturalism: extreme form of realism
84) Novelette: short story; often satirical (not sure if it can be considered a short story)
85) Omniscient Point of View: knowing all things, usually the third person
86) Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning
87) Oxymoron: a figure of speech that has two contradicting words in a phrase to create rhetorical effect
88) Pacing: rate of movement; tempo
89) Parable: a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth
90) Paradox: a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth
91) Parallelism: the principle that a sentence's structure ties into its function with a similar sentence
92) Parody: an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist
92) Pathos: the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness
93) Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake
94) Personification: a figure of speech attributing inanimate objects with human qualities
95) Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose
96) Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation
97) Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
98) Prose: the ordinary form of spoken and written language
99) Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction
100) Pun: play on words:
101) Purpose: the intended result wished by an author:
102) Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it is
103) Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song
104) Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead
105) Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out
106) Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis (memes)
107) Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade
108) Rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer
109) Rising Action: plot build up
110) Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
(Why is he up there? No one knows, why care, it's cool.)
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