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The events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| plot | The events happen at the beginning, middle, and the end of the story. |
| setting | The time and place of a story. |
| Dialogue | conversation characters have with each other. |
| internal conflict | A problem or struggle that happens inside 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 a story. |
| First person point of view | The narrator is a character in inside the story and uses words like l, 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 empress ideas that are not literally true. |
| Simile | compares two unlike things using words such as like or as. |
| sensory details | Words that appeal to the five senses and / or language that allows the reader to create mental images. |
| connotation | The feeling, ideas, or emotions a word makes you think of. |
| Denotation | The exact, dictionary definition of a word. |
| 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. |
| Foreshadowing | Clues or hints in a story of events that will happen later in the plot. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics or traits to an animal or non living thing. |
| metaphor | compares two unlike things without using the words like or as. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Thesis statement | A sentence in the introduction of an essay that states the writer's position or opinion on the topic of the essay. |
| Memoir | A form of narrative writing, written from the perspective of the author, about an important time in their life. |