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This central character drives the action and faces the main conflict in a story, often serving as the hero or main focus.
Difficulty: Easy- Foil
- Antagonist
- Narrator
- Protagonist
This Russian theorist distinguished between "fabula" (story events) and "syuzhet" (how events are arranged in narrative).
Difficulty: Medium- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Vladimir Propp
- Roman Jakobson
- Viktor Shklovsky
Bloom outlined six revisionary ratios that poets use to swerve from predecessors, naming this initial swerving movement first.
Difficulty: Hard- Clinamen
- Kenosis
- Daemonization
- Tessera
This character opposes the main character, creating obstacles and conflict throughout the narrative.
Difficulty: Easy- Sidekick
- Mentor
- Protagonist
- Antagonist
Bakhtin introduced this concept describing multiple voices and perspectives existing equally within a novel.
Difficulty: Medium- Polyphony
- Dialogism
- Heteroglossia
- Carnivalesque
This Bloomian ratio involves a poet completing a precursor's work by retaining its terms while extending them.
Difficulty: Hard- Tessera
- Clinamen
- Apophrades
- Askesis
This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as," such as "her smile was like sunshine."
Difficulty: Easy- Hyperbole
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Personification
This Bakhtinian concept describes the coexistence of competing social languages and registers within a single text.
Difficulty: Medium- Discourse
- Heteroglossia
- Dialogism
- Polyphony
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