| A | B |
|---|
| setting | time and place of the story |
| characters | act out the event of the plot |
| protagonist | main character |
| antagonist | person who opposes the main character |
| round character | character with more than one personality trait |
| flat character | a character with only one personality trait |
| static character | a character who stays the same from the beginning to the end of the story |
| dynamic character | a character who develops and changes |
| point of view | the relationship between the narrator and the story |
| first person pov | narrator is a character; referred to as "I" |
| third person limited pov | narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character |
| third person omniscient | narrator knows everything about the story's events and reveals thoughts of all characters |
| exposition | introduces characters, setting at beginning |
| rising action | adds complications to the conflict |
| climax | turning point of the story |
| falling action | action that follows the climax and reveals the results |
| resolution | concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome |
| internal conflict | conflict that takes place in the mind of a character |
| external conflict | takes places between a character and an outside force |
| man vs. self | a conflict between a person and an emotional or mental problem |
| man vs. man | a conflict between two people |
| man vs. nature | a conflict between a person and a force of nature |
| theme | central message of a story; the lesson or moral |
| symbolism | an object, person, place or experience represents something else |
| foreshadowing | clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
| flashback | when an earlier event is inserted into the sequence of events |
| mood | general atmosphere of a story |
