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| Plot | show | John argued with his mother, ran away from home, realized he was homesick, and went back home.
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| Conflict | A struggle between two opposing forces. | show 🗑
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| Internal conflict | show | Tom was trying to decide where to go to college.
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| External conflict | A struggle between a person and an outside force. | show 🗑
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| Rising action | show | John gets cold and hungry when he runs away from home.
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| show | The high point of action or suspense in a story. | John falls down and scratches his knee and realizes he misses his mother.
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| Resolution | The point of the story when the conflict is resolved. | show 🗑
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| Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. | show 🗑
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| show | A character tells the story. | Uses I, me, we, or us.
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| Third person point of view | An outside narrator tells the story. | show 🗑
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| show | A character who changes throughout the story. | Ebenezer Scrooge changes from being mean and stingy to kind and charitable.
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| show | A character that does not change. | Scrooge's nephew Fred is kind and cheerful throughout the story.
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| show | Hints or clues the author gives to suggest events that will happen later. | Dickens mentions that Marley is dead in the first line of the story and the reader thinks this may be important later.
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| Metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that does not use "like" or "as." | show 🗑
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| Simile | A comparison between two unlike things that does use the words "like" or "as." | show 🗑
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| Personification | Giving human qualities to nonhuman things. | show 🗑
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| Theme | The lesson about life an author wants to teach through a story. | show 🗑
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| Setting | The time and place of the action of a story. | show 🗑
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| Historical fiction | A made-up story that includes some true history. | show 🗑
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| Science fiction | A made-up story that takes place in the future. | show 🗑
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| show | A made-up story that could possibly really happen. | A novel about a teenager moving to a new school.
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| Nonfiction | show | A biography or autobiography.
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| Fantasy fiction | A made-up story that has magic and dragons. | show 🗑
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