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Literary Terms
| Setting | Place and Time |
| Characterization | What the Character looks like: Age and physical description |
| Characterization | The way an author reveals a character's personality |
| Characterization | What the character thinks of says |
| Characterization | What the Character does |
| Characterization | What others think/Say about the Character |
| Characterization | What the author tells the reader directly |
| Conflict | A problem or struggle between to forces |
| Internal Conflict | A struggle within a character's own mind |
| External conflict | A struggle with some force out side of the character |
| Suspense | The feeling that the reader experiences when he or she is uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
| Situational Irony | When the opposite of what the reader expects to happen actually happens |
| Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, piece of art/music, or historical/mythological/Biblical event or person |
| Theme | The main message or life lesson that the author is presenting to the reader |
| Plot | The order of events in a story |
| Exposition | Background info |
| Rising Action | Events that lead to a turning point |
| Turning point | A moment of great tension and decisive action when the end become unavoidable |
| Falling Action | Events that lead to the resolution |
| Resolution | The outcome or result of the main conflict |
| Foreshadowing | Hints and clues about future events in the story |
| Flashback | When a scene that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier in time |
| Dramatic Irony | When the reader knows more than the character in the story |
| Point of view | Perspective of which the story is told |
| 1st person | I, me, mine, we, us, our |
| 3rd person | He, she, they, his, hers, theirs |
| Ask yourself | Who is telling the story |
| Verbal Irony | When characters intentionally say the opposite of what they mean, how they feel, or what their actions show |
| Symbol | An object, person, place, or action that has meaning by itself and stands or something larger EX: A rose represents love |