| A | B |
|---|
| setting | time and place of the action* |
| conflict | problem* |
| internal conflict | a struggle that occurs within a character* |
| external conflict | a struggle that occurs between a character and an outside force* |
| personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea* |
| point of view | perspective from which a story is told* |
| 1st person point of view | the narrator is in the story's action* |
| omniscient point of view | the narrator is "all knowing"* |
| 3rd person point of view | the narrator is outside of the story's action* |
| plot | the sequence of events in a literary work* |
| exposition | introduces the character(s), setting and conflict* |
| rising action | develops the exposition* |
| climax | the high point of interest/suspense; the turning point* |
| falling action | all of the events after the climax* |
| resolution/denouement | all of the problems are resolved - not solved* |
| character | the "person/people" in the story* |
| protagonist | the main character* |
| antagonist | the character or force that comes into conflict with the main character* |
| direct characterization | when an author TELLS the reader what a character is like* |
| indirect characterization | when an author SHOWS the reader what a character is like* |
| theme | a central idea or "truth" that a work of literature expresses* |
