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| Sequence | The coming of one thing after another; a connected series of events or actions. |
| Rising Action | The action of the story that leads up to the climax. |
| Setting | The physical background and time in which the action of a story takes place. |
| Symbolism | The use of something that stands for or represents something else. For example, a heart stands for love. |
| Thesis/Hypothesis | A proposition or statement to be proved or be maintained against objections. |
| Climax | The highest point of action or interest in a shor story or book. |
| Character | A person or animal in a play, poem, short story, or book. |
| Conflict | Active opposition to persons or ideas within a short story or book. |
| Turning Point | An important or deciding event in a story at which a change must come, either for better or for worse. |
| Falling Action | Action that follows the peak action in a story through the resolution or conclusion of a short story or book. |
| Flashback | A breakin the continuation of a short story that allows the introduction of some earlier event or scene. |
| Foreshadowing | Indicate beforehand of something that may come. |
| Minor Character | Supporting persons represented in or acting in a story, drama, or movie. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which an animal, ideas, and things are represented as having human qualities. |
| Prefix | An affix attached before the root word to change the meaning of the root. |
| Plot | The structure of the action of a story. |
| Imagery | Pictures formed in the mind through comparisons, descriptions, and figures of speech that help the mind form forceful or beautiful pictures. |
| Onomatopoeia | A poetic device used to produced an effect of sounds through the use of words. |
| Plagiarism | The act of taking and using as one's own thoughts and writings of someone else. |
| Conclusion | The final act; the end. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggerated statement used for effect and not mean to be taken literally. |
| Connotation | Slang use of terms rather than their literal meaning. |
| Denotation | The literal meaning of a word or phrase. |
| Antagonist | The villain who opposes the hero in a short story or play. |
| Protagonist | The hero of a short story or play. |
| Bias | An irrational prejudice or opinion about something. |
| Suffix | An affix attached to the end of a root word to change its meaning. |
| Simile | The comparision of two things using words; like, as. |
