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| Plot | the sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next. |
| Conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| Metaphor | something is described as though it were something else |
| Simile | uses like or as to make a comparison of two unlike ideas |
| Character | a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work |
| Protagonist | the most important character of the story |
| Foreshadowing | author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story |
| Setting | the time and place of the action |
| Theme | the central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
| Antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character |
| Characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| Climax | the high point in the action of the plot |
| Novel | a long work of fiction |
| Mood | the feeling created by a literary work |
| Non-fiction | prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects or events |
| Point of View | the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told |
| Exposition | the part of the work that introduces the characters, setting and basic situation |
| Figurative language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally |
| Fiction | prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
| Flashback | a scene in within the story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events to events that occurred in the past |
| Resolution | the outcome of the conflict in a plot |
| Autobiography | a story of the writer's own life, told by the writer |
| Personification | a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| Biography | a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another |
