| A | B |
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| metaphor | the comparison of two unlike things |
| minor character | a character who does not play a large role in a story |
| mood | the feeling the reader gets from a work of literature |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds imitate the sounds of what they describe |
| personification | describing nonhuman animals, objects, or ideas as though they possess human qualities or emotions |
| plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| first person point of view | when the narrator is a character in the story and describes things from his/her point of view |
| third-person limited point of view | narrator not in story, but can describe only one character in the story |
| third-person omniscient point of view | narrator is not a character but is able to describe the experiences and thoughts of every character in the story |
| protagonist | the main or central character |
| setting | the environment in which a story takes place |
| static character | character who does not undergo a significant change |
| symbol | an object, setting, event, animal, or person that on one level is itself, but that has another meaning as well |
| symbolism | the practice of using symbols |
| theme | a story's main message or moral |
| tone | the author's attitude toward the subject matter or toward the reader or audience |
