Terms to know when reading a novel
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| show | The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
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| show | a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
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| show | the background information of a story, the story before the story.
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| show | the struggle between two forces, one generally being the protagonist of the story. The antagonist can be the self, another person, animal, nature, technology/machine, society, or the supernatural
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| show | the point in the story where the conflict is at its peak, when the conflict has reached its crisis and one of the two forces "wins."
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| show | the conclusion of the story, the unfolding of the theme, the "happy ending," the tying together; what occurs in the resolution depends on the kind of story and the author's purpose.
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| show | clues in the writing that lead the reader to predict what will happen later in the story.
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| show | a strategy of plot sequencing where the author takes the reader back to events that occurred before the present time in the story.
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| show | a foil character is either one who is in most ways opposite to the main character or nearly the same as the main character. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by comparison or contrast.
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| show | the narrator, usually the protagonist, tells the story from his/her perspective using I, me, we, etc.
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| show | Imagery is language that appeals to the senses. It is description that makes the reader feel he or she is "in the setting."
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| show | an extended metaphor wherein the characters, events, and situations of the story can be taken on two levels: the literal level and the metaphoric/symbolic level, each thing representing something else. Ex: Animal Farm
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