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| a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work | character |
| a character or force in conflict with a main character; often the "bad guy" | antagonist |
| the main character in a literary work; often the "good guy" | protagonist |
| the act of creating and developing a character; what the author writes to develop a character's personality | characterization |
| a struggle between opposing forces | conflict |
| a conflict that takes place WITHIN THE MIND of a character | internal conflict |
| conflict that occurs when a character struggles against some OUTSIDE FORCE | external conflict |
| the time and place of the action | setting |
| the sequence of events in a story | plot |
| introduces setting, characters, and the basic situation | exposition |
| events leading to the climax | rising action |
| high point of interest or suspense; when things come to a 'head' | climax |
| events after the climax leading to the resolution | falling action |
| solution to the problem & ending of the story | resolution |
| a central message, concern, or purpose in a literary | theme |
| the feeling created in the reader by a literary work | mood |
| a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work | suspense |
| a speaker or character who tells a story, may be first | narrator |
| the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing CONTRADICTIONS | irony |
| A literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. | onomatopoeia |
| the perspective from which a story is told | point of view |
| The point of view in which the story is told by the narrator who is a character in the story | First Person |
| The point of view in which the story is told by someone who is NOT a character in the story | Third Person |
| The point of view in which the story is told by someone who is NOT a character in the story AND is all-knowing | Third Person Omniscient |
| a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event that occurred at an earlier | flashback |
| the use of clues that suggest/hint at events that have yet to occur | foreshadow |
| the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group; example: "Y'all" used in the South US & "Youse guys" used in New York/New Jersey to mean "everyone here" | dialect |
| a conversation between characters; signalled by quotation marks in a written story | dialogue |
| Her hair was like golden straw | simile |
| The wheels of the car screamed in pain as the woman applied the brakes. | personification |
| The "bzzzzzzzzz" of the saw hurt my ears | onomatopoeia |
| The rabbit was like a small bundle of cotton balls. | simile |
| The ocean was like a fishbowl full of shiny silver fish. | simile |
| The door moaned as I tried to force it open. | personification |
| I seem to have lost my mind! | idiom |
| Mary was a machine cranking out the answers to her math homework. | metaphor |
| The rhinoceros was a tank speeding toward the petrified hunter | metaphor |
| Her face was a mask of pain as the doctor tried to re-set her broken arm. | metaphor |
| The plate broke into a thousand pieces | hyperbole |
| a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work | allusion |
| the attitiude or viewpoint that an author shows toward his or her subject | tone |
| a type of figurative language that makes a direct comparison not using like or as | metaphor |
| a class of literature | genre |
| the use of descriptive language that appeals to the reader's senses | imagery |
| a type of figuative language that applied human qualities to inanimate objects | personification |
| the repetition of an initial sound in two or more words | alliteration |
| repeating a word or group of words for emphasis or effect | repetition |
| a type of figurative language that makes a comparison using "like" or "as" | simile |
| the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one. | euphemism |
| The type of irony when an event occurs that is unexpected. | Situational irony |
| The type of irony when the reader or viewer knows something the character does not know. | Dramatic irony |
| The type of irony when a statement is made that is not meant | verbal irony |
