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| flat character | a character that mainly exhibits a single dominant quality or Character Trait |
| rounded character | a character that exhibits complex traits that are more realistic |
| static character | character that does not change during the course of a story |
| dynamic character | character that changes during the course of a story |
| character | a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| main character | the most important character in the story |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character; often the "bad guy" |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work; often the "good guy" |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing a character; what the author writes to develop a character's personality |
| conflict | a struggle between opposing forces |
| internal conflict | a conflict that takes place WITHIN THE MIND of a character |
| external conflict | conflict that occurs when a character struggles against some OUTSIDE FORCE |
| external conflict types | Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Society |
| inciting force | What causes the problem to be introduced |
| narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story, may be first person or third person |
| motivation | a reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or speech |
| point of view (POV) | the perspective from which a story is told |
| First Person POV | told by the narrator who is a character in the story |
| Third Person POV | told by someone who is NOT a character in the story |
| dialect | the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group; example: "Y'all" used in the South US & "Youse guys" used in New York/New Jersey to mean "everyone here" |
| dialogue | a conversation between characters; signaled by quotation marks in a written story |
