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| Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces that brings about the action within a story or drama; can be internal (within a character) or external (between a character and an outside force) |
| Connotation | The attitudes and feelings associated with a word- as opposed to a word's literal meaning |
| Context clues | Information a reader may obtain from a text that helps confirm the meaning of a word or group of words |
| Credibility | The quality or state of offering reasonable grounds for being believed |
| Denotation | The literal or "dictionary" meaning of a word |
| Dialect | A form of language as it is spoken in a particular geographic area or by a particular social or ethnic group |
| Dialogue | A conversation between two or more characters in a work that is used by writers to give insight into the characters themselves |
| Dynamic character | A character who undergoes a change during the course of a story |
| e.g. | Exempli gratia (Latin)- meaning "for example" |
| Editing | A step in preparing a written work for publication that focuses on clarity and correctness |
| Expository | A spoken or written composition- intending to set forth or explain |
| Fable | A story intended to enforce a useful truth (a moral)- especially one in which animals speak and act like human beings |
| Figurative language | Language enriched by word images and figures of speech |
| Figurative meaning | A symbolic (or non-literal) interpretation of written work |
| First person narration | Narration in which the point of view is that of the main character |
