Narrative techniques summary

-Alussion: When characters or events stand for other events or characters of history.

-Alliteration: Repetition of the same sounds.

-Allusion: Reference to a person or event, literary or historically.

-Climax: The part of the story with greater intensity or suspense.

-Connotation: A mening that goes beyond the word, kind of using the word as a symbol.

-Denotation: Dictionary definition of the word

-Flashback: An abrupt and quick jump to the past.

-Foreshadowing: Clues of what will happen in the future.

-Gothic: Usiong of mysterious elements, also a kind of horifying places and supernatural events.

-Hero: A noble character.

-Hyperbole: An exaggeration

-Lyric poem: A melodic poem that describes an object or emotion

-Metaphor: A direct comparisson if two different things.

-Narrative poem: Aa story told in verse.

-Onomatopoeia: Using word that are similar to sounds.

-Personification: Giving human attributes to something not human.

-Plot: Sequence of events in the story, includes characters and a conflict.

-Point of view: The perspective in wich the story is told

-Setting: Where and ehn the story takes place.

-Simile: A direct comparisson without the use of "as" or "like"

-Soliloquy: A kind of monologue,  chracter speaks alone, reveals his thoughs

-Stanza: A group of lines in a poem.

-Symbol: Something that means more than what it is.

-Theme: An in sight about human life.

-Thesis: Tthe subject or opinion in an essay.

-Tone: The authors attitude towards the writing.

-Litote: When something says less than it was intended.