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| Fiction | prose created from the imagination and usually narrative. |
| Journal | a form of writing in which a person writes down their thoughts and feelings |
| Character | is a person (or sometimes an animal) who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story. |
| Antagonist | A character who struggles against the main character. |
| Flat Character | reveals only one quality or character trait. |
| Round Character | seems to have all the complexities of an actual human being. |
| The Conflict | the central problem (s) or struggle that the protaganist has to resolve |
| Dynamic Character | a character that goes through a change in their world view or understanding of themselves |
| Plot | A story is made up of all the following literary elements: exposition, conflict (s), rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution |
| Rising Action | Develops the conflict to a high point of intensity. |
| Climax | The highest point of suspense in the story, usually where the central conflict is resolved |
| Falling Action | All the events that follow the climax |
| Resolution or Dénouement | Any final material that finishes the story |
| Setting | the time, place, culture, government, and economic level of a story |
| Theme | is a central idea of the work or moral of the story. |
| Static Character | a character in which no fundament change takes place |
| Point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told. |
| In stories told from first-person point of view, | the narrator takes part in the action of the story and includes himself or herself in the telling of the story by using words such as I and we. |
| In stories told from the third-person point of view, | the narrator is more of an observer, standing outside the action of the story and relating details to the reader using words such as he, she, it, and they. |
| Exposition | the time, place, and background info essential to understanding the central conflict |
