| A | B |
|---|
| antagonist | the character who opposes the main character |
| climax | the most interesting part of the story |
| conflict | the struggle that takes place between two opposing forces |
| fiction | a literary work that is not true |
| flashback | an interruption in the sequence of events in a story to remember something that occurred in the past |
| foreshadowing | hints or clues the author uses to let the reader know of events that will occur later in the story |
| non-fiction | a literary work that is true |
| plot | the sequence of events in a literary work |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the story is told |
| protagonist | the main character |
| setting | the time and place in which a story takes place |
| theme | the central idea of the story or the general idea about life that the story communicates |
