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Terms to know when reading a novel

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Protagonist   show
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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 events of a story or narrative with a variety of sequencing patterns. The plot is what happens in the story.  
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show the background information of a story, the story before the story.  
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Conflict   show
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Climax   show
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Resolution   show
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Foreshadowing   show
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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 a dynamic character is one who changes by the end of the story, learning something that changes him or her in a permanent way.  
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Static Character   show
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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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Second person point of view   show
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show the narrator uses third person pronouns (he/she/they etc.) and is God-like: all knowing (omniscient). This type of narrator is not limited by time or space.  
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show The author or poet's attitude or feeling toward a person, a thing, a place, event or situation. It is also the emotional feeling in the poem/story.  
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Theme   show
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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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Metaphor   show
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Simile   show
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Allegory   show
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Verbal Irony   show
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show a discrepancy between what is expected, as in action, or as regards the situation/setting, and what one would expect to happen  
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show a discrepancy between what the character knows and what the reader knows to be true; it's when the reader knows something the character does not know  
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