| A | B |
| antagonist | the character who is in conflist with the main character |
| character | a person or animals in a literary work |
| climax | the turning point |
| conflict | caused by two opposing forces such as man vs man or man vs nature |
| connotation | the feeling associated with a word |
| denotation | dictionary definitions of a word |
| dynamic character | a character who changes throughout the story |
| exposition | the beginning of the plot |
| falling action | events that lead to the resolution |
| figurative language | language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words |
| first person narration | speaker tells the story in his own voice using personal pronouns |
| flashback | an event that occurred at an earlier time that interrupts the time |