| A | B |
|---|
| Dialogue | when someone says something in the story |
| Suspense | when the author creates a feeling of uncertainty in the reader |
| Flashback | when a character returns to an earlier time in the story to give more information for the present |
| Foreshadowing | when the author or character hints about things that may happen later in the story |
| Plot | the story line or sequence of events in the story |
| Plot components (6 total) | exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
| Setting | time and place of the story |
| Theme | the central message or the lesson you learn from a story |
| Protagonist | the main character in the story |
| Antagonist | a person or a thing that challenges the protagonist |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd omniscient) |
| Conflict | main problem in the story- man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. nature |
| Narrator | person telling the story from his/her point of view |
| character | a person in the story |
| Types of characters | dynamic, flat, static, round |
| symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas and emotions in the story |
| imagery | descriptive or figurative language used to create a picture in the reader's mind |
| mood | the feeling the author creates in the novel |
| tone | the attitude that the writer takes towards the subject in the story |
| hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration |
| Irony | difference between what happens and what is expected |
| 3 types of irony | situational, verbal, dramatic |
