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| atmosphere | the mood or feeling of a literary work |
| characterization | the personality of a character as revealed by the author |
| character motivation | a feeling, idea, or goal that causes a character to act in a certain way |
| climax | the turning point in a literary work |
| conflict | internal or external; the problem or struggle between 2 or more forces |
| dialogue | conversation |
| episode | a self-contained incident within a literary work |
| flashback | a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot in order to show an event that happened earlier |
| foreshadowing | a hint or clue (given by the author) to let the reader know what will happen later in the story |
| inference | a conclusion that is drawn from available information |
| irony | a difference between the way things seem and the way they actually are |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| plot | the sequence of events in a literary work |
| resolution | the solution to the conflict; the final outcome |
| setting | the time and place of the literary work |
| short story | a brief account of fictional events |
| suspense | the reader's interest in the story's outcome |
| theme | the underlying message or meaning |
| title | the name of the literary work |
| protagonist | the main character |
| antagonist | the person who opposes the main character |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things, using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things, WITHOUT using like or as |
| personification | giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
| first person | the story is told from the point of view of one of the characters; uses pronouns such as I, me, we, and us |
| third person limited | the story is told in third person by a character in the story, but the character's point of view is limited to what he/she knows to be true |
| third person omniscient | an all-knowing narrator tells the story; this point of view gives us the most information about characters in a story |
