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| character | a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist. |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| diction | the manner in which we express words; the wording used. |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word, independent of other associations that the word may have. |
| connotation | the set of ideas associated with it in addition to its explicit meaning. |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. |
| mood | atmosphere - the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
| plot | the sequence of events, the conflict in the story |
| exposition | the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
