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antagonist a character or force working against the protagonist.
Catalyst event along the rising action the rising action that pushes, energizes the story...event that activates the rising action.
Character A person, animal, oblect, or force that takes part in the action of a literary work. the main or major character is the most important and central to the action. A minor or supporting character/one who takes part in action but is not focus of attention
Characterization The method an author uses to create and develop the characters and their various personalities through action, word/statments, thoughts, and opinions. (ATWO)
Direct Characterization A writer states the characters' traits, actions, motives, or feelings.
indirect Characterizations A writer denpends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character's traits or uses other participants in the story to reveal a character's trait's and motive's.
Climax The point of highest intesity/tension in a work at which the outcomes of the action is in three questions; the triumph (NOTE: Three parts)
Character traits A quality that a character shows by action statement, or thought
Conflict Struggle between opposing forses (protagonist and antagonist) Conflicts may be internal ( person vs. self) or externl (Person vs. Person , society, technology, nature, fate/destiny, unknown; good vs. evil)
exposition The beginnning of a work that may reveal character, setting, mood/tone, and or basic situation.
Falling action A part of the story following the climax/turning point that leads to the resloution of the story.
inciting forse Event/situation that triggers the conflict/rising action.
Plot The sequence of events in a story
Protagonist Main character or hero to whom the problem is solved after the climax.
resolution/denouement The portion of the play or story in which the problem is solved after the climax
Rising action All the details of time and place of the action in a literary work; the total orment. In most stories, the setting serves as a back drop or contextin which the characters interact and the plot progresses.
BLLOTT Backround, Location, Life Style,Occupation, Time, Tradition
Short Story a tight work of fiction with one main setting, limited characters, and one problem
Theme The central and universal statement about the human condition in a litarary work that they may be stated directly or indirectly
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