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| recount | Narrate a story or event in detail. |
| narrative | The basic storyline of a text. |
| plot | An author’s selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus. |
| setting | The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs. The major elements of setting are the time, the place, and the social environment that frames the characters. |
| character | A character is a person presented in a dramatic or narrative work, and characterization is the process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader. |
| orientation | The exposition or beginning of a narrative, where the audience is informed about the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘why’ of the events which are to follow. |
| complication | Situation within a narrative that causes difficulty of some kind |
| climax | the climax, the moment of greatest emotional tension in a narrative, usually marking a turning point in the plot at which the rising action reverses to become the falling action. |
| resolution | the falling action (or resolution) is characterized by diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot’s conflicts and complications. |
| coda | Final statement in a narrative that often has a moral lesson or message. |
| narrator | The voice of the person telling the story, not to be confused with the author’s voice. |
| theme | The main ideas that are developed within a text. |
