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LITERARY TERMS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Setting | Time and place story occurs |
| Plot | Putting events in order as the story has occurred |
| Characterization | describing the character's physical, emotions, thoughts, actions, and relationships to others |
| Theme | the author's message, meaning, lesson, and what the story is trying to teach us |
| Point of View | whose telling the story (first, second, or third person) |
| Author's Purpose | to persuade, to entertain, and to inform |
| Mood | the feeling the reader gets from the story or selection |
| Tone | the feeling of the author from the reading. |
| Flashback | the author takes the reader back to something that happened in the past |
| Foreshadow | hints and clues in the reading selection that gives evidence of things to occur later in the story |
| Exposition | the story beginning |
| Resolution | the story ending |
| Conflict | the problem in the story |
| Internal conflict | the conflict the character has within himself |
| External conflict | the conflict the character has with outside forces (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. phenomenon |
| Compare | looking for the similarities in the story |
| Contrast | looking for the differences in a story |
| Cause and effect | the reason something in the story happens and its effect or problem and solution |
| Rising action | where the characters, setting and conflict in the story are introduced |
| Climax | the most suspenseful part of the story |
| Falling action | where the story loose ends are tied up and the story ends |
| Inference | using the evidence from the reading text, your own background knowledge to give information or make guess about what your are reading |
| Drawing Conclusion | giving valid evidence to support information from the reading selection |
| Central/Main Idea | the overall topic or subject of the story or reading selection |
| Moral | lesson in the story |
| Genre | type of literature (short story, poem, folktale, novel, etc) |
| Protagonist | the good character in the story |
| Antagonist | the bad character in the story |
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marlene-Scott
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