| A | B |
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| Characterization | How a writer describes a character by showing how the character acts, thinks, speaks and looks |
| Conflict | a fight or difference of opinion |
| Dialogue | the words spoken between characters |
| Main character | who the story is mainly about |
| Mood | the feeling the writer creates: happy, sad, scary |
| Omniscient point of view | when the teller(narrator) of the story is unknown and seems to know everything about the characters |
| Plot | the events that happen in a story |
| Point of view | the vantage point of the teller of the story |
| Protagonist | the "good" person in a story |
| Setting | when and where the story takes place |
| Theme | the main idea |
| Narrator | who is telling the story |
| Irony | In stories when a reader understands more about what is happening than the characters |
| Internal conflict | a conflict that takes place ina characters mind |
| External conflict | when a character struggles with another character, a group of people, or a force of nature such as tornadoes, fires, or dangerous animals |
| Foreshadowing | the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot |
| Metaphor | an imaginative comparison between two unlike things; in which two unlike things are said to be alike |
| Similie | a comparison of 2 unlike things using the following words: like, as than, or resembles |
| Flashback | an interruption in the action to tell what happened at an earlier time |
| Situation | What is happening at a particular time and place. |
| Antagonist | The "bad" person in a story. |
