Silas Marner

a type of extended prose fiction

main character

character who is in conflict with the protagonist

the point of greatest interest, excitement, or suspense

separate stories or series of incidents that are related to the main plot in some way

Jane Austen perfected what

sir Walter Scott established the

deals with the social customs and manners of a particular social class at a particular time and place

seeks to show the spirit of a past age or to recreate a person or series of events of the  past

a novel depicting the lives of a wide cross section of society