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| Conflict | a struggle between two forces |
| external conflict | a struggle betwen two characters; between a character and a group; or betwen a character and an animal or a force in nature |
| internal conflict | a struggle that takes place within a character's mind or heart |
| antagonist | a character that the main character (protagonist) struggles against |
| character | person in a story, poem or play |
| character traits | the special qualities of a character, such as his or her behaviours, values, habits, and dislikes |
| dialogue | conversations chatacters ahave with other characters. |
| dynamic character | a character who undergoes change in the course of a stoy. The change might involve recognition of some truth about life. |
| motivations | the reasons behind a character's actions and feelings |
| protagonist | the main character in a story |
| static character | a character who does not significantly change during a story |
| flashback | an action that interrupts the story to introduce an event that happens at a later time |
| foreshadowing | hints in the story that certain events are going to happen later |
| narrator | the teller of a story; the narrator tells the story from one of three points of view |
| omnicient point of view | the narrator can tell us everything about the characters, including how they think and feel. This narrator is not a character in the story |
| first person narrator | is a character in the story who refers to himself or herself as "I" or "me" |
| third person limited narrator | an omnicient narrator (not someone in the story). this narrator, however, focuses on only one character's or events in the story. |
| mood | a story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes. |
| setting | the time and place in which the story happens |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the subject of a story, a character, or the audience (the readers). A story's tone can be described with words like "humorous", "serious", "sad", "sarcastic", and "sympathetic" |
