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| Fiction | works of prose (not poetry) that have imaginary elements |
| Suspense | the excitement or tension that readers feel as they become involved in a story |
| Narrator | the storyteller |
| Setting | time, weather, atmosphere/mood, and location. |
| Theme | the central idea or message of a story |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward a subject |
| Mood | the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader |
| Foreshadowing | hints or clues to the outcome of the story |
| Plot | the events in a story |
| Exposition | the introduction |
| Inciting incident/Call to Adventure | the event that starts the ball rolling |
| Rising Action | the protagonist attempts to resolve the conflict but encounters more problems |
| Climax | the turning point of the action |
| Falling Action/Resolution | the close of the story |
| External Conflict | a conflict between a character and an outside force |
| Internal Conflict | a conflict within a character |
| Protagonist | the central character or hero usually the one with whom the audience tends to identify. |
| Antagonist | the principal force in opposition to the protagonist |
| Character | an individual who participates in the action |
| Characterization | the technique the writer uses to develop a character's personality |
| Irony | a contrast between appearance and reality where reality is the opposite from what it seems |
| Verbal Irony | when someone knowingly says one thing and means another |
| Situational Irony | the contrast between what is expected and what actually occurs |
| Dramatic irony | when the reader or a character knows something that other characters do not know |
| Point of View (POV) | the perspective from which the story is told |
| First Person POV | the narrator is one of the characters in the story |
| Third Person Limited POV | the narrator is not one of the characters but zooms in on just one character |
| Third Person Omniscient POV | the narrator is "all knowing" |
| Simile | comparison of two dissimilar items using "like," "as," "ressembles," or "than" |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to an inanimate object |
| Allusion | an indirect reference to another literary work or a famous person, place, or event |
| Metaphor | comparison of two dissimilar items that does NOT use "like," "as," "ressembles," or "than" |
| Rhetorical Question | a question that is asked for effect, rather than to seek information. |
| Alliteration | the repetition of sounds. |
| Repetition | the intentional use of key words, phrases, or even ideas over and over again. |
| Indirect Characterization | the author allows the audience to decide what a character is like |
| Direct Characterization | the author tells the audience directly what the character is like. |
| Epic | a long narrative poem that centers around 1 hero |
| Homeric/heroic/epic Simile | LONG simile |
| Homeric/heroic/epic Epithet | describes certain items the same way each time. |
| Light v. Dark Imagery | light = good; dark = bad |
| Oxymoron | a true contradiction |
| Pun | a play on words or the multiple meanings of words |
