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| allusion | reference to a famous person, place, event, etc., that the author expects the audience to know about |
| climax | most exciting part of a story where all the main conflict comes together |
| flashback | literary device that allows writers to show specific events that happened before the current action in the story |
| genre | category system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that develop to characterize the differences |
| irony | can be verbal, situation, or dramatic and has the result of the meaning, situation, or action being one thing but meaning something else |
| satire | type of literary device where an author ridicules specific people, groups, or some aspect of society |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| subplot | a minor story that runs inside the main story |
| symbol | a concrete or physical object that represents an abstract concept |
| tone | how a writer feels about his subject that comes through based on the types of words he chooses |
| mood | how the reader feels about the story |
| theme | an abstraction that represents the central idea of the story |
| narrator | tells the story in the first, second, or third person point of view |
| foreshadowing | when the author hints at actions that will come in the future |
| metaphor | a comparison of two different things to make them ore alike |
| personification | when authors give human traits to animals or some lifeless object |
| imagery | a writer's vivid description that helps readers visualize |
| protagonist | main character in the story; usually has a 'want' that he/she is trying to fulfill |
| 3rd person omniscient | narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing |
| internal conflict | problem that occurs within a character's mind or body |
| plot | series of events in a fictional story |
| 1st person | narrator is in the story, telling it from his/her point of view |
| antagonist | character who stands in the way of the main character |
| external conflict | problem with an outside force |
| 3rd person limited | narrator is outside of the story but only focuses on one character |
