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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 |
| dialog | conversations characters have with each other |
| internal conflict | A problem or struggle that happens inside a characters mind or heart |
| external conflict | A problem or struggle between a character and something outside of them |
| narrator | The speaker or voice telling the story |
| First pov | The narrator is a character meaning me i and my we |
| third pov | the narrator is outside the story like they them he she |
| figurative language | words used in a imaginative way to express Ideas that aren't true |
| simile | compares two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | compares two things without using like or as |
| sensory details | descriptive words and phrases that appeal to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create vivid, immersive experiences for readers, making stories more real, engaging, and emotionally resonant by showing rather than just telling |
| connotation | The feeling ideas that or emotions a word makes you think of |
| denotation | the literal dictionary definition of a word |
| exposition | when everything is revealed and explained |
| rising action | the major parts that lead to the climax |
| climax | the event that big stuff happens |
| falling Action | the events that happen after the climax |
| resolution | the fixing point of the story |
| theme | the message |
| personification | giving an object human characteristics |
| comentary | the readers point of view |
| subplot | the side story |
| hyperbole | when you exsaderate something |