Literature

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The choices an author makes to reveal a character's personality, such as appearance, action, dialogue, and motivations

A character or force that opposes the protagonist

A significant turning point in the story that determines how it must end

Background information regarding the setting, characters, plot

The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story

A narrator who participates in action but sometimes has limited knowledge/vision

An exaggeratin (e.g., I have a million things to do today)

Contrasting to seemingly unalike things to enhance the meaning of a situation or theme without using like or as (e.g., You are the sunshine of my life)

Figura retorica e pensamiento por medio de la cual una realidad o concepto se expresan por medio de una realidad o concepto diferentes con los que lo representado guarda cierta relacion de semejanza ej. la 'primavera de la vida' es una metafora de la juventud.

• 1. Exageracion de un hecho, una circunstancia o un relato: ej. Andres tiene que decirtelo todo con hiperboles, exagerando.
• 2. lit  Figura retorica de pensamiento que consiste en aumentar o disminuir de forma exagerada lo que se dice
• SIN exageracion.

A narrator who only know the minds of some characters and not others

A narrator who is unnamed/unidentified (a detached observer), who does not assume character's perspective and is not a character in the story (the narrator reports on events and lets the reader supply the meaning)

• 1. Trama argumento
• 2. Argumentacion: conjunto de hechos que se narran en una obra literaria, teatral, cinematografica, a partir de los cuales se desarrolla el texto o el guion ej. el argumento de la pelicula fue idea de Luis Buñuel.
• 3. Reseña de una obra literaria, teatral en que se mencionan esos hechos de forma breve y ordenada: ej. en la cartelera podemos leer el argumento de las peliculas.

Pertains to who tells the story and how it is told; can some times indirectly establish the author's intentions.

A character that remains the same

The way that the writer arranges the plot of a story

The tension that the author uses to create a feeling of discomfort about the unknown.