| A | B |
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| Character | people, animals, things in a story of writing that do the action |
| Setting | the time and place in which the story happens |
| Plot | the storyline or the events of the story |
| Connotation | the feeling or attitude associated with a word, related to but quite distinct from its literal meaning |
| Denotation | the literal meaing of a word |
| Alliteration | two or more words in a sequence that have the same sound |
| Protagonist | the "good" character in a story; the hero |
| Antagonist | the "bad" character in a story; the villain |
| Genre | a category or type of writing, such as fiction and nonfiction, biography, adventure, and science |
| Allegory | links the objects, characters, and events of a story with meanings beyond the literal meaning of the story |
| Narrator | the teller of the story |
