| A | B |
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| internal conflict | struggle with emotions and desires |
| protagonist | hero, main character moves the action forward |
| dynamic character | character changes throughout the story |
| suspense | anticipation of what is going to happen next |
| setting | when and where the story takes place |
| climax | turning point of the story |
| genre | kind or type |
| flashback | past events are revealed |
| dramatic irony | reader/audience knows something that the character does not |
| theme | message or main idea |
| static character | character remains the same throughout the story |
| antagonist | villain, goes against the main character |
| mood | attitude or emotion of characters or environment |
| external conflict | struggle against someone or something |
| tone | author's attitude |
| symbol | real object used to represent an idea |
| imagery | appeals to the senses, such as color and sounds |
| situational irony | contrast between what should seem appropriate and what actually happens |
| verbal irony | writer says one thing but means something totally different |
| foil | character who is used as a contrast to another character |
| flat character | one ot two traits, which can be described in two words |
| round character | like a real person, has many character traits |
| plot | series of related events |
| foreshadow | events hint at what will happen later in the story |
| exposition | presentation of characters, setting, and explanation of background |
| resolution | concluding ideas or denouement |
| rising action | building of suspense |
| narrative hook | captures readers' attention (inciting incident) |
| falling action | results from climax |
| first person point of view | narrator is a character telling the story, uses I |
| limited third person point of view | narrator tells the story through the eyes of one character |
| omniscient point of view | the reader knows what everyone is thinking |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| character | person or animal who takes part in a literary work |
| indirect characterization | the reader draws conclusions about a character based on what others say and how the character acts |
| direct characterization | author directly states a character's traits |
| description | portrait in words of a person, place, or thing |
| diction | word choice |
| atmosphere | feeling created in the reader by a literary work (AKA mood) |
| pun | play on words |
| denotative meanings | the meanings in a dictionary |
| connotative meanings | the feelings and attitudes associated with a word |
| inciting incident | it interrupts the harmony of the situtation (narrative hook) |
| antithesis | a contrast or opposition |
| sarcasm | the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
