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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plot | The event that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of a story. |
| Setting | The time and place of a story. |
| Dialogue | Conversations characters have with each other. |
| Internal Conflict | A problem or struggle that happens inside a character's mind or hard. |
| External Conflict | A problem or struggle between a character and something outside of them. |
| Narrator | The person or voice telling a story |
| First person point of view | The narrator is a character inside the story and uses words like I, me, my, we. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Sensory 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 the conflict. |
| Rising action | The major events that develop the plot and lead to the climax. |
| Climax | The event that is the turning point in the story, at which the conflict is usually resolved. |
| Falling action | The events that begin to conclude the story and lead to the ending. |
| Resolution | The events that conclude the story and reveal its message. |
| Theme | The central message that runs throughout a story. |
| 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 opinions. |
| connotation | The feeling, ideas, or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| Denotation | The literal, dictionary definition of a word. |
| personification | giving human characteristics or traits to an animal or nonliving things. |
| subplot | The secondary plot that happens along with the main plot. |
| hyperbole | A type of figurative language that makes an exaggerated statement which is not meant to be taken literally. |
| foreshadowing | warning of a future event. |
| Non-fiction | A type of writing that is based on real events and real people. |
| Central idea | The main message a writer wants readers to understand from a text. |
| Memoir | A form of native writing, written from the perspective of the author, about an important time in their life. |
| Thesis (statement) | A sentence in the introduction of an essay that states the writer's position or opinion on the topic of the story. |