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| motivation | an inducement or incentive to action; the spychological or social factors that drive character action |
| narrative | a collection of eents that tell a story, which may be true or not |
| narrator | one who tells a story |
| personification | figurative language in which human characteristics are given to animals, ideas, or objects |
| plot | the plan of events or main story in a narrative or drama |
| point of view | the frame of reference from which the events of a story are conveyed to the reader |
| protagonist | the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem |
| rising action | a related series of events in a story that build toward the point of greatest interest |
| setting | the time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or movie takes place |
| simile | a type of figurative language which compares two things by using the words like or as |
| stanza | a group of lines or verse (usually not less than four), arranged according to a definite scheme |
| structure | order of the parts of a story or poem, and the relationship of the parts to each other and to the entire work |
| symbol | a word or object that stnds for another word or object |
| theme | an implicit or recurrent idea; a motif; a central idea that permeates a poem, short story, or novel |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward the readers and subject |
| voice | characterizes the tone, attitudes, or personality of the speaker as it reveals itself directly or indirectly in the narrative |
