| A | B |
|---|
| plot | the story line |
| theme | the lesson learned |
| characterization | decription of characters |
| indirect characterization | words, actions, reactions describe the characters |
| direct characterization | author uses adjectives to describe characters |
| setting | the place and time of the story |
| static character | a character who does not change over the story |
| dynamic character | a character that changes over the story |
| conflict | the problem or struggle |
| climax | the highpoint or most suspenseful |
| suspense | anxious curiousity |
| foreshadow | hint at the outcome of the story |
| resolution | the outcome of the story |
| point of view | the view from which the story is told |
| 1st person point of view | uses "I" readers get inside the narrator's mind |
| 3rd person point of view | story told from a character's point of view |
| omniscient point of view | an all-knowing point of view, gets insides other character's head |
