| A | B |
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| style | a writer or speaker's word choice |
| mood | the atmosphere or feeling within a literary work |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds ex: buzz |
| exposition | characters and setting are introduced |
| inciting incident | an event that creates the central or main conflict for the protagonist |
| major character | includes the main character or any other characters who play significant roles |
| 3rd person omniscient POV | the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of a majority of the characters |
| figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be taken literally |
| suspense | a feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events |
| dramatic irony | the reader knows more about the plot than the characters in the story do |
| theme | a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things |
| myth | stories about gods, goddesses, etc that explain how natural things came about |
| fiction | stories that tell about imaginary characters and events |
| point of view | the perspective or vantage point from which the story is told |
| irony | a contradiction between what is stated and what is meant or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| characterization | the act of creating and developing a character |
| flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| prose | the ordinary form of written language. It includes writing that is not poetry, drama or song and it occurs in two forms: fiction and nonfiction |
| external conflict | a struggle between a character and an outside force |
| narrative | a story told in fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama |
| description | to give a picture in words |
| figure of speech | an expression or a word used imaginatively rather than literally |
| 1st person POV | used when the narrator of a story is a character in the story and refers to himself or herself with the first person pronoun "I" |
