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| antagonist | A person who fights, or struggles against another in a combat or contest of any kind; person who opposes the hero |
| bias | the tendency to favor one side too much; prejudice |
| primary source | first in order or time;the original person or place from which anything comes or is obtained; example: a journal from a civil war soldier |
| flashback | a break in the continuous series of events of a novel, movie, or short story to introduce some earlier event or scene |
| protagonist | The central figure or character in a drama, story, etc. |
| secondary source | The next after the first in order, place, time, or importance; not the original; example: a book about the civil war |
| stereotype | a fixed form, character, or image of something as if everything or everyone in a category are the same; not allowing for differences |
| thesis/hypothesis | a proposition or statement to be proved or to be maintained against objections |
| structural analysis | the identification of word-meaning elements to help understand the meaning of a word as a whole |
| view point | a way of looking at or considering a certain matter |
| foreshadowing | to indicate beforehand; be a warning of something to come |
| text features | graphic features of written material designed to assist the reader's understanding of the text (italics, sub-titles, etc.) |
| crisis/turning moment | an important or deciding event in a story at which a change must come, either for the beter or for the worse |
