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| Antagonist | The opponent or enemy of the main character |
| Protagonist | The main or central character in a story |
| Characterization | The mean's through which an author reveals a character's personality |
| Dynamic Character | A character who undergoes a significant internal change over the course of a story |
| Flashback | A scene in a story that occurred before the present moment. |
| Foreshadow | Clues or hints about something that is going to happen later in the story |
| Hyperbole | An extreme exaggeration that is used for emphasis or effect |
| Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood from the meaning of its individual words |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the five senses |
| Irony | Dramatic, situational, and verbal are the three types of... |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things |
| Mood | The feeling a reader gets from a work of literature |
| Personification | Describing non-human things using human characteristics |
| Onomatopoeia | Words which sound like what they are trying to describe |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as |
| Symbol | An object, setting, event, animal, or person that has a deeper meaning |
| Theme | A story's main message or moral |
| Alliteration | When two or more words in a group of words begin with the same sound |
| Aside | When a character speaks directly to the audience as if the other character's cannot hear what they are saying |
| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. This struggle can be internal or external |
