| A | B |
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| antagonist | the force in conflict with the main character |
| protagonist | the main character; story revolves around this character |
| characterization | the author states directly what a character is like or the author reveals the charcter's personality through his words and actions |
| types of conflict | man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs society |
| dialogue | the conversation between two characters in a work of literature |
| foreshadowing | the use of events that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| irony | contrast between expectation and reality; between what is said and meant, what is expected to happen and what does, and between what appears to be true and what really is true |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by the literary work; methods used to create mood are images, dialogue, descriptions, characterization, plot events |
| plot | the sequence of events in a work of literature |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| 1st person p.o.v. | the narrator is a story character; use of 1st person pronouns (I, my, mine, our, we,us) |
| 3rd person omniscient p.o.v. | events are viewed throught the eyes of more than one character |
| limited 3rd person p.o.v. | the narrator is not a story character, but he/she presents the story from the perspective of one of the characters(no 1st person pronouns) |
| symbolism | an object stands for or represents something else; the author expects the reader to transfer knowledge of the object to some abstract idea |
| setting | time and place |
| theme | the author's message; controlling idea of the literary work |
