Terms for Character

• Protagonist: The main or central character in a narrative, the protagonist is not necessarily a hero.
• Antagonist: The character who opposes the main character
• Dynamic: A character who changes through the course of a narrative
• Static: A character who remains the same through the course of a narrative
• Flat Character: A one dimensional character who lacks development
• Round Character: A multi-dimensional character,whose personality has a variety of facets
• Stock Character: A character that appears in a variety of works that has a set role, personality, and purpose.
• Epiphany: A sudden insight or realization. The epiphany is often provoked or brought about something that has no clear realization to the insight itself. The term was coined by James Joyce. Scholars disagree about the nature of the insight: religious, artistic, intellectual.