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Character development is showing the multitude of traits and behaviors that give the literary character the complexity of a human being. The amount of character development affects the quality of the story:

* A flat character is not fully developed; we know only one side of the character.

<i>Source: http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html</i>

A dynamic character is one who experiences a basic change in character through the events of the story. This change is internal and may be sudden, but the events of the plot should make it seem inevitable.

<br><i>Source: http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html</i>

A static character is one who does not experience a basic character change during the course of the story.

<br><i>Source: http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html</i>

===Plot===

Plot is the sequence of events which involves the characters in conflict.

<br><i>Source: http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6585/class/litelem.html</i>

Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. By extension, it also came to apply to a film issued in the same installment manner over a period of sequential weeks at a single movie house.

<br><i>Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial</i>

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