| A | B |
|---|
| plot | series of events or actions in a story |
| Protagonist | Main Character/hero |
| Antagonist | Opposition of Main character/ Bad Guy |
| Exposition | beginning of story where characters, setting ,and conflict are intorduced |
| Conflict | problems for characters to deal with |
| External Conflict | main character struggles against another character , society , or nature |
| Internal Conflict | character fights with his own conscience or heart |
| Rising Action | events leading up to the climax |
| Falling Action | events after the climax to the end of the story |
| Climax | turning point of the story where everyhting changes for the main character |
| Conclusion | end of the story |
| Resolution | how the conflict is solved |
| Setting | time and place of a story |
| Denoument | end of story where all loose ends are wrapped up, secrets revealed, and questions answered |
| Mood/ Tone | overall feeling of the story/author's feeling toward a topic |
| Narrative Point of View | who is telling the story |
| 1st person | a character is telling the story |
| 3rd person limited | outside narratoe that tells the story through one characters eyes |
| 3rd person Omniscient | Outside narrator that KNOWS everything |
