| A | B |
|---|
| Plot | sequence of events that take place in a story |
| Exposition | establishes the setting and characters |
| Conflict | struggle between two or more characters or forces |
| Internal Conflict | struggle within a character (individual vs. self) |
| External Conflict | struggle between a character and something or someone else |
| Setting | place and time of a story |
| Characterization | the process of revealing the personality of a character |
| Indirect Characterization | we have to use our own judgment (speaks, acts, looks and dresses, inner thoughts and feelings, what others think or say about them) |
| Direct Characterization | writer tells us directly |
| Point of View | vantage point from which a character tells a story (omniscient, 1st person, 3rd person limited) |
| Theme | central idea of a work of literature; what the writer wishes to reveal about the subject |
