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Narrative Unit Terms
Narrative Unit Terms / Narrative Components
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrative | A story that describes a series of events (real or imagined). |
| Fiction | A type of narrative that is made up or imagined, not true. |
| Genre | A category or type of literature (writing). |
| Characters | Any person, animal, or thing that performs actions, speaks dialogue, and moves the story forward. The who. |
| Setting | Where and when a story takes place. |
| Point of View | Who is telling the story, like a character in the story or a narrator watching from the outside. |
| Sensory Details | Words that describe using the five senses |
| Theme | The deeper message or universal lesson of the story. |
| Tone | The author’s attitude toward the subject. |
| Mood | The feeling a story creates for the reader. |
| Flashback | When the author interrupts the story to go back to an earlier time. |
| Foreshadowing | Hints or clues about what will happen later in the story. |
| Dialogue | The exact words that characters speak. |
| Authors Purpose | The author's main reason for writing a text, or "why" they wrote it. |
| Figurative Language | Using words creatively and not literally to make writing and speaking more interesting, vivid, and powerful |
| First Person POV | A narrative where a character inside the story tells the events directly using self-referential pronouns like "I," "me," "my," and "we". |
| Second Person POV | A rare narrative that addresses the reader or listener directly as the main character using the pronoun "you". |
| Third Person Limited | An outside narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single character at a time, using pronouns like "he," "she," and "they". |
| Third Person Omniscient | An all-knowing, outside narrative style where a disembodied voice uses pronouns like "he," "she," and "they" to tell a story while having total access to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of every character. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that directly compares two things by stating that one thing is another, without using "like" or "as" |
| Simile | A figure of speech that explicitly compares two different things using the words "like" or "as" |
| Hyperbole | An intentional, extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a point. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same initial sound in a series of close-by words |
| Personification | A writer gives human traits, emotions, or actions to non-human things like objects, animals, or ideas. |
| Tone | The author's or narrator's attitude toward the subject, characters, or audience, expressed through writing style and word choice. |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere or "vibe" that an author creates to make the reader feel a specific way. |
| Plot | The events that take place in a story. Shows the progression of the events. Five different parts: Introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. |
| Conflict | The problem or struggle in the story. |
| Introduction / Exposition | Part of a narrative that gives essential background information to help the audience understand the characters, setting, and prior events. |
| Rising Action | The sequence of events following the inciting incident (conflict) that builds tension, raises stakes, and develops the central conflict. |
| Climax | The peak moment of highest tension, drama, or conflict where the main character faces their ultimate challenge and everything changes. |
| Falling Action | Part of a story's plot that happens right after the climax and leads into the final resolution. |
| Conclusion / Resolution | Final part of a story's plot where the central conflicts are settled, loose ends are tied up, and a new normal is established. |
| Protagonist | The main character in a story, play, or film who drives the plot forward and is typically the hero. |
| Antagonist | A character, group, or force that directly opposes the protagonist and creates the main conflict in a narrative. |
| Secondary Character | A supporting character who appears multiple times and influences the plot, but is not the main focus of the story. |
| Narrator | The fictional voice or persona created by an author to tell a story and shape the reader's point of view. |
| Suspense | A feeling of anxious excitement and uncertainty about what will happen next. |
| Characterization | The process an author uses to develop, reveal, and describe the personality, physical traits, motives, and background of a character within a narrative. |
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