| A | B |
|---|
| internal conflict | when a character struggles with a decision or personal hardship |
| external conflict | when a character struggles with another character, society, or nature |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| first person narrator | when the story is told by a character IN the story (uses pronouns I, my) |
| third person narrator | when a story is told by a someone outside the story (uses pronouns he, she, etc.) |
| flashback | when a story's plot is interrupted in order to take the reader back to an earlier scene |
| foreshadow | when an author provides hints about future events |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| theme | a message about life or human nature that we get from a story |
