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Literary definitions
| Literary terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Plot | Plot is what happens in a story. A subplot is a less important series of events within the main plot. |
| Conflict | The plot of a story always involves some sort of struggle between opposing forces. |
| setting | setting is the time and place of the action of a story.Person Vs Person, Person Vs society, Person Vs nature, Person Vs self, Person Vs fate |
| characterization | It refers to the techniques that a writer uses to develop characters 1. Through Physical description 2. Through a character's speech, desires, thoughts, feelings, or actions 3. through the speech, feelings, thoughts, or actions of other characters |
| Foreshadowing | A writers use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in the story. |
| Flashback | A conversation, an episode, or an event that happened before the beginning of a story. |
| Point of view | It refers to the narrative method, or the kind of narrator used in a literary work. |
| characterization continue | 4. Through direct comments about a character's nature |
| Antagonist and Protagonist | The main source of the conflict-the bad guy The main character of the story-the good guy |
| Narrative | Supplies information about the characters -Limited First person: I,me, we -Limited Third person: He,She, they -Omniscient Third Person:Narrator appears to know what everyone is thinking and feeling -Question- Ask yourself is the narrator reliable? |
| Symbol | a person, place, thing, or event used to stand for something abstract, such as an idea or emotion, in a literary work. |
| Theme | Is the main idea and the author's statement |