1. Novels
A Presentation

2. Abbreviation
The Shortened form of a word or phrase

3. Anti-Structure
A term to describe a narrative structure that deliberately appears unconstructed and chaotic, apparently without an overall plan.

4. Caricature
An exaggerated or distorted portrait of a character, presented as such for comic or satirical effect.

5. Catastrophe
The final phase of a tragedy, involving suffering and death.

6. Character
A person in a novel, film, play or other work of fiction and the qualities they posses.

7. Characterisation
The description of the distinctive qualities a character possesses.

8. Chronology
The order of events in a narrative.

9. Conventions
The traditional rules of writing in a particular genre.

10. Crisis
The turning point in a narrative or drama which moves the plot in a new direction.

11. Declarative
A type of sentence which makes a statement.

12. Dénouement
The closing sequence of a narrative or drama, in which events are explained or resolved.

13. Dialect
A form of language with its own terminology, grammar and pronunciation; often regional or resolved.

14. Diction
The language a writer gives to a character; the choice of words in a literary text, also sometimes called a lexis or vocabulary.

15. Figurative Language
Words that are not being used literally in the text, such as in metaphors or similes, often suggesting a comparison between two things.

16. Flashback
A narrative device where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.

17. Genetic Features
The distinctive characteristics of a particular genre.

18. Main Plot
The principle events in a drama or a narrative.

19. Narrative
A construct in which a sequence of events is selected and recounted for an audience, in speech, writing or visual media; a story.

20. Plot
The main sequence of events in a story.

21. Point of View
The perspective from which a story is told.

22. Protagonist
The leading character in a story or play.

23. Second Person Narrative
A writer’s technique for presenting a story be addressing the reader as ‘you’.

24. Setting
The time, location and circumstances where a narrative or drama occurs.

25. Subplot
A secondary sequence of events in a story, often involving supporting characters.

26. Synopsis
A brief summary of a work of fiction.

27. Theme
The ideas or issues raised by the story in a narrative or drama.

28. Third Person Narrative
A technique for presenting a story in the writer’s voice, referring to the characters as ‘he’, ‘she’, and’ ‘they.’

29. Tyrant
A cruel and oppressive ruler.

30. Unreliable Narrator
A narrator who has a partial or biased rule of the event’s s/he reports and therefore cannot be trusted by the reader to be objective.