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| fiction | writing about imaginary people and events. In other words, the stories aren’t true. |
| non-fiction | writing about real people and events that actually happened. |
| autobiography | the non-fiction story of one’s own life. |
| plot | the main events in a story. |
| exposition | the “once upon a time” introduction to a story (setting, characters, etc). |
| rising action | the part of the story that introduces a conflict, which gets more serious as it goes along (building suspense and interest). |
| climax | the most intense moment of the story. |
| falling action | the part of the story after the climax, where loose ends of the plot are tied up and resolved. |
| resolution | the “they lived happily ever after” end of a story. |
| cliffhanger | when a chapter or episode ends on a suspenseful situation. |
| foreshadowing | a warning or hint about what’s going to happen later in a story. |
| chronology | the arrangement of events (in a story) in the order in which they occurred. |
| anachronism | something which is out of place in time. |
| flashback | a literary and a film technique in which chronological and sequential narrative is interrupted by the recollection of an image or a scene from the past. |
| flash-forward | a technique in which the narrative is interrupted to show a scene from the future. |
| nostalgia | A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past, making a person feel happy and sad at the same time. |
| Gothic | Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. |
| first person | when the narrator, usually the main character, is telling the story from his/her own perspective. The word “I” indicates first-person point of view. |
| second person | when the narrator tells a story using the word “you.” This places the reader in the story and is not common in writing. |
| third person limited | the narrator usually focuses his/her attention on one character. The reader sees what is going on with other characters, but only knows what one character is thinking and feeling. |
| omnicient | the narrator has access to the thoughts and feelings of every character in the story. |
| narrator | the person who narrates something, especially the events of a novel. |
| abstract | general, not specific or concrete. |
| specific | particular, clearly defined, easy to see in your mind’s eye. |
| sensory | having to do with the five senses (sound, sight, smell, feel, taste). |
