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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Short story | a brief work of fiction intended to be reading a single setting |
| Characters | people or animals who take part in the action |
| Characterization | a writer uses what the character does or says to reveal personality |
| Traits | a character's qualities, attitudes, and values |
| Motives | The reasons for a character's actions |
| Setting | the time and place of story's action |
| Mood | the story's atmosphere |
| Plot | a sequence of events in the story |
| Conflict | Struggle between two opposing forces in the story |
| Internal conflict | takes place in the mind of a character |
| External Conflict | takes place between a character and an outside force, such as nature |
| Theme | the message of the story or an insight about life |
| Plot structure | the way in which story events are organized for dramatic effect |
| exposition | introduces the characters and their situation |
| Inciting Event | often included in the exposition, reveals the central conflict of a story |
| RIsing Action | leading to climax develops the conflict |
| Climax | The point of greatest intensity in a story the turning point where its outcome is determined |
| Falling action | sets up the storys ending |
| Resolution | shows how the conflict is ended |
| Point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| First person pov | presents the story from perspective of a charachter |
| Third person POV | tells the story of a narrorator outside the story |
| Omnisicent third person | is a point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters. The author may move from character to character to show how each one contributes to the plot. |
| Limited Third person | the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character. All characters are described using pronouns, such as 'they', 'he', and 'she'. But, one character is closely followed throughout the story, and it is typically a main character. |
| adaptation | inherited trait that increases an organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment |
| conservation biology | branch of biology that studies why many species are in trouble and what can be done to save them |
| evolution | change over time |
| extinction | occurs when the last individual of a species dies |
| introduce | to bring a substance or organism into a habitat or population |
| natural selection | process by which individuals with traits that help them survive in their environment live longer, compete better, and reproduce more than those individuals without these traits |
| survive | to remain alive |
| variation | slight difference in an inherited trait among a population |
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