| A | B |
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| tone | attitude toward subject |
| personal narrative | describes a point-of-view, uses 1st person to tell a story |
| autobiography | form of non-fiction where one person tells a story about themselves |
| internal conflict | inside struggle - takes place within the character |
| external conflict | outside conflict |
| chronological order | time in which events occur in order |
| short story | short fiction - usually read in one sitting |
| plot | sequence of events; conflict, climax, resolution |
| climax | turning point; highest interest |
| naive first person narrator | child's point-of-view; child/adolescent main character telling the story |
| idiom | expression that is different from the words |
| analysis | breaking something down into its parts; ie: form, rhyme, language |
| 7 strategies for reading fiction | preview, visualize, make connections, question, predict, build, evaluate |
| fiction | prose that tells an imaginary story |
| major characters | main person the story is about |
| minor characters | less important people in the story |
| exposition | beginning of a plot - into main character, establishes conflict |
| resolution | final stage - loose ends are tied up & story brought to a close |
| narrator | teller of the story |
| point-of-view | perspective or angle from which an author decides to tell a story |
| complication | plot gets more complex - suspense & energy build |
| compression | economy of language - what makes a short story short |
| theme | message about life or human nature (lessons learned by the main character) |
| denoument | means solution to the conflict |
| genre | kind, type, or category of literature |
