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| Setting | The time and place of a story, poem, or play. |
| Introduction/Exposition | Tells who the characters are and what their conflict or problem is. (It is found at the beginning of the story) |
| Plot | The series of related events that make up a story.(The beginning, middle, and the ending of a story) |
| Character | A person or animal in a story, play or other literay work. |
| Theme | An idea or lesson learned about life in a work of literature |
| Climax | The most exciting moment in a story |
| Conclusion/Resolution | Takes place when the character's problems are solved and the story ends. |
| Conflict | A struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces. |
| External Conflict | A struggle between a character and some outside force. |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle between opposing desires or emotions within a person |
| Point of View | The vantage point from which the story is told |
| First Person point of view | One of the characters, using the personal pronoun I, is telling the story. |
| Third Person Limited point of view | Someone else is telling the story. An outside narrator who is not in the story is telling the story. The narrator does not know everthing that the characters are thinking or everything that they will do. |
| Third Person Omniscient point of view | All knowing point of view. Someone else is telling the story; but. the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems. (The narrator knows what the characters are thinking and what they will do.) |
