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| Character | person or animal that takes part in the action of the work. |
| Antagonist | a character or group of characters who represents the opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend. |
| Personification | a type of metaphor in which distinct human qualities are attributed to an animal, object or idea. |
| Figurative Language (or "figures of speech") | a way of saying something other than the literal meaning of the words. |
| Paradox | a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements, but on closer inspection may be true. |
| Hyperbole | a bold, deliberate overstatement not intended to be taken literally, it is used as a means of emphasizing the truth of a statement. |
| Diction | a writer's word choice; may be formal or informal, plain or ornate, common or technical, abstract or concrete. |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told. |
| 1st Person | the narrator is a character and refers to him/herself as "I" |
| 3rd Person Limited | the narrator's knowledge is limited to one character. |
| 3rd Person Omniscient | the narrator knows everything about all the characters. |
