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| character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| setting | the time and place of the action |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| plot steps | 1)Exposition, 2)Initial Event, 3)Rising Action, 4)Climax, 5)Falling Action, 6)Resolution |
| exposition | introduces setting, characters, and the basic situation |
| rising action | events leading to the climax |
| climax | high point of interest or suspense; when things come to a 'head' |
| falling action | events after the climax leading to the resolution |
| resolution | solution to the problem & ending of the story |
| theme | a central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| suspense | a feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work |
| narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story, may be first person or third person |
| moral | a lesson taught by a literary work |
| point of view (POV) | the perspective from which a story is told |
| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event that occurred at an earlier time |
| foreshadow | the use of clues that suggest/hint at events that have yet to occur |
