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| allegory | a story that has a double meaning |
| allusion | a reference in a story to another piece of literature or historical events. |
| antagonst | the character who gets in the way of the main character achieving his or her goal |
| climax | the point in a story when we find out whether or not the protagonist has won the conflict |
| character | a person in a novel, play, or movie |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more persons |
| fantasy | very imaginative writing that is not set in the actual world as we know it. |
| flashback | an interruption in the telling of a story, when the writer tells about events that happened earlier in the story |
| foreshadow | a hint given by the writer about something that will happen later in the story |
| flat character | a simple character who is one dimensional |
| genre | a category of literary composition |
| verbal irony | when a person says or writes one thing but means another |
| plot | events that happen in a story |
| protagonist | central character in a story; the one on whom action is centered |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told |
| narrator | the character in a story who is telling the story |
| first person narration | when a narrator is directly involved in the story he or she is telling. The narrator uses the pronouns he and she |
| omniscient narrator | when the narrator knows everything about all the characters in the story. The pronouns he, she, or they are used. |
| theme | the lesson or truth about life the author is trying to convey |
