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| 94487435 | Plot | sequence of events in a story | |
| 94487436 | Foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a story | |
| 94487437 | Flashback | insertion of earlier events into a story | |
| 94487439 | Exposition | introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation | |
| 94487440 | Rising Action | events leading up to the climax | |
| 94487441 | Climax | the highest point of intensity in a story or play | |
| 94487442 | Conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | |
| 94487443 | Falling Action | events after the climax, leading to the resolution | |
| 94487444 | Resolution | end of the story where loose ends are tied up | |
| 94487445 | Physical Antagonist | a living, breathing character in a novel that is standing in the way of the protagonist achieving his or her goal | |
| 94487446 | Direct Characterization | the writer tells us directly what a character's personality is like | |
| 94487447 | Indirect Characterization | telling what the character is like through actions, dialogue, or thoughts | |
| 94487448 | Protagonist | the main character in a work of fiction | |
| 94487450 | First Person Point of View | a form of storytelling in which a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself using pronouns like 'I' or 'me'. | |
| 94487453 | Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told | |
| 94487454 | Setting | where and when the story takes place | |
| 94487455 | Theme | The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight about human life revealed in a literary work | |
| 94487456 | Dialogue | When two characters are speaking. | |
| 94487457 | Past tense | a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | |
| 94487458 | Present tense | a verb tense that expresses actions or words at the current time | |
| 94551059 | Third Person Point of View | a form of storytelling in which the narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears, using pronouns like 'she' or 'he' | |
| 94551060 | Personification | A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea. | |
| 94551061 | Abstract Antagonist | an idea, illness, or group of people that is standing in the way of the protagonist achieving his or her goal | |
| 94551062 | Inference | making a logical guess |
