English

Ficto

Fashioning action of shaping

Theme

whatever general idea or insight the story reveals

fiction

A name for stories not entirely factual but partially shaped

Plot

artistic arrangement of the events of a story

Dramatic Situation

a person is involved in a conflict

Drama

any clash / conflict of wills, desires, or powers: with the world with himself, with God, with the Devil

Complication

a new conflict

Protagonist

the principal person who strives

Suspense

pleasurable anxiety that heightens our attention to the stor

Antagonist

one who opposes the protagonist

Crisis

turning point in the action

Climax

defining point for the character - the moment of decision

Denouement

French for "untying of the knot" - the conclusion, or resolution

Archetypal Criticism

an approach to literature that reads literature as expressing images, story patterns, and characters of inherited and almost-universal unconscious ideas