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| plot | series of events that make up a story |
| exposition | introduces the basic situation of a story |
| complications | rising actions that create more conflict |
| climax | highest point in the story; turning point |
| denouement | the final resolution of the main conflict of a literary work |
| conflict | the problem in a story |
| external conflict | problem with something or someone around the character |
| internal conflict | struggle with opposing desires; choices |
| mood | feeling a story creates in the reader |
| theme | the overall message or idea a writer gives through a story |
| protagonist | main character |
| antagonist | one the main character has the conflict with |
| characterization | how the author tells readers abiout the characters |
| motivation | reasons behind a character's words or actions |
| narrator | teller of the story |
| point of view | whose "eyes; from whose perspective the story is told |
| setting | time and place of a story |
| tone | the quality that reveals the attitudes of the author |
| inciting incident | the event that creates the conflict at the beginning of the story |
| symbol | something in the story represents something else |
