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| Atmosphere | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Character Traits | the qualities that make a character an individual |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces |
| External conflict | struggle between two characters and caused by a difference of ideas or personalities or between a character and some force in nature |
| Internal conflict | a struggle that takes place within the mind of a character; a struggle with one's self |
| Nonfiction | prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, or events |
| Fiction | prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
| Foreshadowing | the author’s use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story |
| Homophone | words that sound alike but are spelled differently |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to |
| Personification/Anthropomorphism | an inhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Plot | describes the structure of a story |
| Plot diagram | an organizational tool, which is used to map the significant events in a story |
| Exposition | beginning that introduces the setting, mood, characters, and the basic situation (inciting force) |
| Rising action | the series of events that lead to the climax and increase in intensity; longest part of a story |
| Climax | a high point of interest or suspense; turning point |
| Falling action | action that follows the climax; fastest and shortest part of a story |
| Resolution | the conclusion of a story |
| Setting | the time and place of the action |
| Short story | brief work of fiction that presents a sequence of events or plot |
| Theme | the central message, concern, or purpose of a work |
| Tone | the writer’s attitude toward the readers and toward the subject |
| Dialogue | a conversation between characters that is usually set off by quotation marks to indicate a speaker’s exact words in poems, novels, and short stories |
