| A | B |
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| Narrator | the person telling the story |
| Fiction | a literary work of the imagination; may be based on truth, but not entirely true |
| Short Story | a bried fictional prose narratvie that may be read in one sitting |
| Setting | the time and place in which a story, play, or novel occurs |
| Character | any person, animal, or object in a story |
| Protagonist | the main character of a work who may win the reader's sympathy; the character the passage concentrates on |
| Antagonist | any person or force that opposes or works against the main character; opponent, enemy, or adversary |
| Conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces; the center of the plot |
| Internal Conflict | a struggle within a character's heart or mind |
| Point of view | the relationship of the storyteller to the story; the angle or perspective from which a story is seen or told |
| Foreshadowing | clues or habits to the future to prepare the reader for up-coming plot developments |
| Flashback | a break in the time sequence when a character returns to an earlier time by remembering the past |
