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| setting | the time and place a story occurs |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| theme | a general truth about life or people made by a literary work or passage |
| point of view | the relationship of the narrator to the story |
| 1st person | a characer in the story actually tells the story |
| 3rd person limited | an outsider tells the story through the eyes of one of the characters |
| 3rd person omniscient | an outsider tells the story but knows the thoughts and emotions of all the characters |
| character | a person or animal who takes part in the story |
| protagonist | main character in the story |
| antagonist | the opponent of the main character |
| secondary | all other characters |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject and the readers |
| plot | the series of events in a story |
| exposition | the introductory material |
| narrative hook | the introduction of the conflict |
| conflict | the problem the main character must overcome |
| external conflict | a conflict between the main character and some force outside that character |
| internal conflict | a conflict in the heart or mind of the main character |
| rising action | all of the vents that occur between teh narrative hook and the climax |
| climax | highest point of suspense in the story |
| falling action | the events between the climax and the resolution that happens as a result of the climax |
| resolution | what happens to the main character or characters after the falling action |
