| A | B |
|---|
| plot | (n.) the events in a story |
| conflict | (n.) the problem in a story (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. fate) |
| primary conflict | (n.) the main problem in a story |
| inciting force | (n.) event that starts the conflict. |
| complication | (n.) a problem |
| resolution | (n.) ending, conflict is resolved |
| first person | (n.) story using I, me, we, myself |
| third person limited | (n.) the narrator of a story only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character |
| third person omniscient | (n.) the narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story |
| theme | (n.) the main idea of the story |
| irony | (n.) something unexpected happens |
| verbal irony | (n.) a person says one thing but means another / sarcasm |
| situational irony | (n.) an unexpected event |
| dramatic irony | (n.) the reader knows something that the character in the story doesn't. |
| symbolism | (n.) an object that represents something else (red = evil, white = pure, |
| allusion | (n.) a reference to another author or book within a story |
| metaphor | (n.) a comparison between two things that doesn't use like or as |
| simile | (n.) a comparison between two things that uses like or as |
| personification | (n.) the author gives human traits/characteristics to something that is not human |
| secondary conflict | (n.) smaller conflict that surrounds the primary conflict |
