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| action | everything that happens in a story |
| antagonist | This is the villain in a story - the person or thing fighting against the hero of the story |
| autobiography | a story a person writes about his or her own life |
| biography | a story a writer tells about another person's life |
| character | a person in the story |
| comedy | a story that makes you smile - even laugh! |
| conflict | the problem of a story; there are 5 basic types of conflict |
| man vs. man | in this type of conflict, a character has a problem with one or more of the other characters |
| man vs. society | in this type of conflict, a character has a problem with society (the law, traditions, society's rules) |
| man vs. himself | the type of conflict where a character struggles with him or herself, trying to decide what to do about a problem |
| man vs. nature | the type of conflict when the character is challenged by some element of nature (tornadoes, bitter cold, hurricanes, floods) |
| man vs. fate (or destiny) | in this type of conflict, a character fights against a problem that seems too big to control |
| dialogue | the talking between characters in a story or drama |
| drama | the form of literature commonly known as plays |
| mood | the feeling that the reader gets from a story - happy, sad, peaceful |
| myth | a story created to explain a mystery of nature |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| moral | the lesson a writer is trying to teach in a story. |
