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| theme | the general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals |
| resolution | the last part of the story when the characters' problems are solved and the story ends |
| plot | The events or main story in a literary work |
| nonfiction | writing that deals with real people, things, events |
| metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a drama or narrative |
| anatagonist | the character that contends with or opposes another charcters |
| dialect | the way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or a certain group of people |
| characters | the people or animals in work of fiction |
| narrator | the person tells the story |
| flashback | interruption in the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time |
| point of view | the angle or perspective from which a story is told |
| irony | a term that suggests some sort of discrepancy between appearance and reality |
| hyperbole | an overstatement or exaggeration |
| foreshadowing | the introduction of clues early in a story to sugges or anticipate significant events that will develop later |
| fiction | a literary work of the imagination that is not necessarily based on fact |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| setting | the time and place in which the events of a ork of literature take place |
| conflict | the struggle between persons or forces in a work of drama or fiction |
| symbol | a person, place, thing or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itslef as well |
| climax | the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action or story |
| static character | a character that doesn't change |
| dynamic character | when a character grows emotionally, learns a lesson or changes his/her behavior |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward a subject |
| traits | permanent qualities of the character's personality |
| mood | the atmosphere of the story |
| internal conflict | a conflict taking place within a character |
| external conflict | a conflict that takes place between a character and an outside force |
| characterization | techniques a writer used to create and develop characters |
| motives | the emotions, desires, or needs that prompt the character's actions |
| personification | an inanimate object takes on human characteristics |
| exposition | part of the story that introduces the characters, setting and situation |
| 1st person Point of View | narrator telling the story while being involved in the action |
| 3rd person Point of view | narrator telling the story without being involved in the action |
| limited 3rd person Point of view | narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| Dramatic irony | contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| Situational irony | an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters |
| metaphor | a comparison without using " Like" or "As" |
| simile | a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Rising action | all events leading to the climax |
| falling action | events after the climax leading to the resolution of story |
| round | character with many traits developed |
| flat | character with only one trait developed |
| parable | simple, brief narrative teaching a lesson |
