English Vocab Quiz Study Set: 1

a literary work in which character, actions, and even settings have two connected levels of meaning

a brief, often implicit and indirect reference in a literary work to something outside the text, whether another text or any imaginary or historical person, place or thing

a type of active reading in which notes are added to a text

a character or nonhuman force that opposes or is in conflict with the protagonist

an interpretation of something that is nonhuman by giving it characteristics of humans

an event, period, or outcome that is strikingly less important or dramatic than expected

a protagonist who, in one way or another, is the opposite of a conventional hero

a character, ritual, symbol, or plot pattern that occurs in the myth and literature of many cultures

the actual person who writes the work and is the focus of biographical criticism

literally, an educational novel, a novel that depicts the intellectual, moral and emotional development of its protagonist from childhood to adulthood