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| setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. "cozy waterfront cottage in a peaceful country setting",  |
| characters | A person portrayed in a novel, short story, or play. Characters can be animals or objects, also, but those are almost always personified.,  |
| resolution | the final outcome of central conflict whether it's solved or brings destruction,  |
| theme | message of the story to apply to your own life |
| climax | most exciting part where conflict is resolved, |
| plot structure | the sequence that stories take from beginning to end: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, denouement, |
| rising action | events building up to the climax, |
| foreshadowing | statements, actions, or events that give hints as to how the story will end,  |
| initiation/coming of age story | a story the shows a young persons transition--usually painful--from childhood to adulthood through the loss of innocence; also know as a "coming-of-age story",  |
| narrator | the person who telling the story,  |
| symbol | a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.,  |
| irony | The use of words to mean something very different from what they appear on the surface to mean; when situations are opposite of what they appear or results turn out opposite of expectationsosite,  |
| juxtaposition | when people, places, or things are place side by side for comparison in order to make a point,  |
| rising action | all events that happen from the introduction of the confllict to the climax, |
falling action,  | the sequence of events that follow the climax and end in the resolution, |
| flashback | a literary device in which the author/director brings reader/viewer back in time back in time,  |
