| A | B |
|---|
| Antagonist | force working against the main character |
| Author's Purpose | the writer's intent to express thoughts or feelings, to inform, explain or pursuade |
| Cause and Effect | When one event brings about another |
| Central Character | most important character |
| Dynamic Character | Characters that experience a significant change |
| Minor Character | less important character |
| Characterization | techniques writers use to develop a character |
| Conflict | struggle between oppossing forces |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle within a character |
| External Conflict | A struggle against another character or force |
| Flashback | interruption in action to present actions that took place earlier |
| Foreshadowing | writer provides hints that suggest future events |
| Imagery | Words or Phrases that appeal to the 5 senses |
| Mood | the atmosphere a work conveys |
| Motivation | the reason why a character acts, thinks, feels a certain way |
| Personification | giving human qualities to an animal or object |
| Plot | sequence of events that make up a story |
| exposition | first stage of a story plot |
| Rising Action | stage that develops the conflict or struggle |
| Climax | point of greatest interest |
| Resolution | loose ends are tied up |
| Point Of View | perspecitive from which a story is told |
| Subjective | includes personal opinions, feelings and beliefs |
| Objective | presents information in a straight handed way |
| Protagonist | main character involved in story's conflict |
| Setting | time and place of a story |
| symbol | a person, place, object, or action that represents something else |
| Theme | message or moral |
| Tone | expresses that writer's attitude toward his/her subject |
| Moral | lesson that the story teaches ( fables ) |
