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Story element
Elements of Literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Narrator | the person who tells the story |
| Protagonist | Good Guy. A main character who is challenged by persons or events in a story: hero or heroine |
| Antagonist | Bad Guy. a character who opposes and actively competes with another in a story; opponent or villain. |
| Conflict | In the plot of a story, the struggle between two or more opposing forces. |
| setting | the time period and place in which a story ocurs |
| Dialect | A special form of speech that belongs to a particular group or region distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary. |
| Dialogue | a conversation between characters in a story. |
| motivation | a feeling, idea, or goal that causes a character to act in a certain way. |
| flashback | in a story a scene or incident that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show an event that happened earlier. |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues by a writer to prepare the reader for future developments in a story. |
| resolution | in a story, the part of the plot that presents the final outcome. |
| climax | The point of the reader's highest interest and greatest emotional involvement in a story. |