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Non-Fiction

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Definition
Plot   chain of related events that take place i a story  
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Conflict   struggle between opposing forces  
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External   conflict in which the struggle is pitted against an outside force  
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Internal   conflict in which a struggle occurs within a character  
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Exposition   introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation  
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Inciting Incident   moment at which the conflict is introduced  
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Rising Action   complications of the plot and building of suspense  
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Climax   turning point of the action when intensity reaches its peak  
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Falling Action   events that occur after the climax and as the intensity subsides  
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Resolution   conflict is resolved in the action of a story  
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Setting   the time of the events in the story  
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Irony   a difference between appearance and reality,or expectation and result  
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Verbal Irony   what is said is different from what is meant  
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Situational Irony   an event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the reader or audience  
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Dramatic Irony   a difference between what a character thinks and what reader or audience knows  
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Mood   the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage  
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Point of View   vantage point from which a story is told  
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First Person Point of View   the narrator is involved in the acion  
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Third Person Limited   narrator is not involved in the story and reveals the thoughts of a single character  
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Third Person Omniscient   the narrator, who is not involved in the story , can see into the minds of all the character  
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Theme   the general idea about life that author wants to communicate  
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Protagonist   the main character or most important character in the story  
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Anatagonist   character who opposes the main character  
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Round Character   shows many different traits- faults as well as virtues  
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Flat Character   show only one trait  
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Dynamic Character   develops and grows during the course of the story  
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Static Character   does not change  
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