| A | B |
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| characterization | author's way of explaining character's personalities or motives |
| conflict | the problem in a story that triggers the action |
| dialogue | the talking that takes place between the characters |
| narrator | person or character who is telling the story |
| plot | the action of the story made up of a series of events |
| plot line | shows the action of the story in five parts |
| exposition or conflict | explains the problem & the characters |
| rising action | sequence of events that leads to climax |
| climax | turning point in story when conflict is at a peak & resolution still not certain |
| falling action | events following the turning that lead to the resolution |
| resolution | the way the problem is solved |
| setting | the time and place of the story |
| theme | the message of the story;moral or lesson the story teaches |
| characters | the people or animals in a story |
| point-of-view narrator | the angle from which a story is told-depends on who is telling the story |
| first-person narrator | one of the characters is telling the story. Uses the pronoun "I". |
| third -person narrator | someone outside of the story is telling it. Uses "he", "she", or "it". |
| fiction | tells about imaginary0 characters & events |
| nonfiction | writing that reports facts, statistics about real people & events |
| genre | a particular category of fiction |
