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| predict, connect, visualize, question | Four steps in active reading. |
| foreshadowing | Clues the writer reveals to help the reader predict what will happen in the story. |
| falling action | Events that lead to the resolution. |
| setting | The time and place of a story. |
| plot | The series of related events that make up a story or drama. |
| conflict | The big problem in a story. |
| climax | The moment of great emotional intensity or suspense. The turning point of the story. |
| resolution | The way a conflict in a story is resolved. |
| flash forward | When the writer interrupts the present story to go forward to a time in the future. |
| rising action | Events that lead to the climax in a story. |
| flashback | When the writer interrupts the present story to go back to an event from the past. |
| exposition | The beginnnig of a plot that gives the information about characters, setting, and conflict. |
| complications | Events that make the conflict more difficult. |
| round character | A character the reader knows a lot about. |
| flat character | A character the reader knows very little about. |
| dynamic character | A character that changes his or her views. |
| static character | A character that does not change his or her views. |
| Fredric Brown | Author of "Nightmare in Yellow" and "Nightmare in Grey." |
| Saki | Author of "The Interlopers." |
| Homer | Author of "The Odyssey" |
| internal conflict | A problem that exists within a character. (a disease, depression,etc.) |
| external conflict | A problem a character struggles with such as an enemy, a storm, etc. |
| Richard Connell | Author of "The Most Dangerous Game" |
| First Person POV | When the narrator IS A CHARACTER; uses pronouns- I, ME |
| Omniscient POV | The narrator is NOT a character; KNOWS ALL |
| Third Person LIMITED | Narrator is NOT a character; story is ABOUT one character; uses HE, SHE, HIM, HER |
| Protagonist | Main character or characters |
| Antagonist | Character or force against the main character |
