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| Plot | Plan of action. |
| Characterization | Characteristics that allow readers to relate to the characters in the literature. |
| Setting | Location in time and place that helps readers to share what the characters see, smell, hear, and touch. Allows the characters' values, actions, and conflicts to be better understood by readers. |
| Theme | The underlying idea that ties the plot, characters, and setting together into a meaningful whole. |
| Style | An author's word choice and word arrangement that create plots, characters, and settings. Also helps to express the theme. |
| Point of View | a particular attitude or way of considering a matter. |
| 4 Different Types of Conflicts | Person against person; person against society; person against nature; and person against self. |
| Person Against Person | The conflict of a literature piece is between one character and another character. |
| Person Against Society | This type of conflict is developed when the main character's actions, desires, or values differ from those of the surrounding society. |
| Person Against Nature Example | The teenage Eskimo girl in the book, Julie of the Wolves, is lost and without food on the North Slope of Alaska. |
| Person Against Person | The conflict of the story includes the main character's struggle to overcome an issue within him or herself. |
