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Academic Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Inciting Incident | The event that sets the central conflict in motion |
| Mood | feeling(s) evoked in the reader as a reaction to the narratives atmosphere |
| Narrative | A spoken or written account of connected events; a story |
| Plot | The events take make up a story line |
| Point-of-View | The narrator's position in relation to the story being told |
| Protagonist | The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text |
| Resolution | The point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out |
| Rising Action | A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest |
| Round Character | A character that does not change throughout the course of the narrative |
| Theme | A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly |
| Tone | Author's attitude toward the subject/ topic evoked through diction |
| Allusion | An author's purposeful reference shapes theme |
| Antagonist | A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary |
| Climax | The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point |
| Conflict | A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist |
| Connotation | Additional meaning associated with the word ( emotions, ideas, and other words.) |
| Denotation | Direct and specific meaning |
| Dynamic Character | A character that changes throughout the course of the narrative |
| Exposition | A literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers |
| Falling Action | The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved |
| Fiction | Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people |
| Flashback | Moments identified by the author that relate to previous events |
| Flat Character | Characters that are two dimensional and are relatively uncomplicated |
| Foreshadowing | Clues by the author that allude to later events |
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