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| character | a person/animal who takes part in the action of a literary work |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| narrator | speaker/character who tells a story |
| setting | place/time of the action in a literary work |
| protagonist | the main character in a literary work |
| theme | central message/insight into life revealed through the literary work |
| conflict | struggle between two opposing forces |
| point of view | determined by the writer's choice of narrator in the story |
| mood | feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
| suspense | feeling of curiosity/uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work |
| 1st person | when the character in the story tells the story |
| 3rd person | voice outside the story narrates. this narrator will be all-knowing |
| 3rd person limited | narration is seeing the world through one character's eyes and reveals only that character's thoughts |
| antagonist | a character/force in conflict with a main conflict |
