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vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | The events that happen in the beginning,middle,and end of a story. |
| Setting | The time and place of a story. |
| Dialogue | conversation characters have with each other |
| Internal conflict | A problem or struggle that happens in side a character's mind or heart |
| External conflict | A problem or struggle between a character and something outside of them. |
| Narrator | The person or voice telling the story. |
| First person point of view | The narrator is a character inside the story and uses words like I, me,they,them |
| Third person Point of view | The narrator is outside the story and uses words like he, she, they, ,them |
| Figurative Language | language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. |
| Simile | compares two unlike things using words such as like or as. |
| Metaphor | metaphor compares two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
| sonsory details | Words that appeal to the five senses and/or language that allows the reader to create mental images |
| Exposition | The introduction to the story that usually reveals the setting,the major characters, and conflict |
| Rising Action | The major events that develop the plot and lead to the climax |
| Climax | The event that is the turning point it the story,at Which the conflict is usually resolved |
| Falling Action | The events that begin to conclude the story and lead to ending |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its message |
| Theme | The central message in a story |
| connotation | The fillings ideas or emotions a word makes you think of |
| personification | Giving human characteristic for trait to an animal or non-living thing |
| Foreshadowing | clues or hints in a story or event that will happen later in the plot |
| Denotation | The literal,dictionary definition of a word |
| commentary | The reader's own interpretation of what is happening within a story.This goes beyond the surface-level of the text,and can include the reader's personal options |
| subplot | The |