| A | B |
|---|
| motivation | a reason for doing something |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| style | the way a writer expresses himself |
| theme | the message or moral of a story |
| paraphrase | putting text into your own words |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| tone | the author's attitude that he/she wants to reveal to the reader |
| connotation | the "associated or general meaning" of a word |
| resolution | the end of the story (The conflict has been resolved.) |
| symbolism | using something to stand for something else |
| conflict | the central struggle or problem between opposing forces in a story |
| flashback | a past event triggered by something in the story that is remembered |
| plot | the main events of a story (the sequence of events) |
| foreshadowing | a hint that something might happen in the future during the story |
| trait | a quality that describes a person |
| mood | the feeling expressed in a literary work (the readers' feelings) |
