antagonist
Terms
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- characters
- people in the story
- foreshadowing
- use of hints or clues to suggest action that is to come
- hyperbole
- extreme exaggeration
- satire
- use of humor to ridicule something
- rising action
- sequence of events leading to climax:conflict comes more intense
- allusion
- reference to something else which the writer expects is audience to recgonize
- tone
- the attitude the writer takes toward his or her subject
- protagonist
- the main character in the story
- suspense
- quality that makes the reader tense or incertain of what will come next
- setting
- location and time in a story
- theme
- underlying meaning of the story
- resolution
- ending of the story: loose ends tied up:problem solved
- plot
-
sequence of events in the story
- point of veiw
-
perpestive from which the story is told
(1st person & 3rd person)
- mood
- feeling the author creates
- falling action
- sequence of events after the climax
- introduction
- beginning of the story; meet characters, setting is presented
- connotation
- emotions or associations a word brings to mind
- climax
- most exciting part; turning point in the story; most intense
- dialogue
- conversation between characters- in quotes
- denotation
- dictionary definition of a word
- complicating incident
- event which brings the action of the story
- irony
- contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
- antagonist
- person or force of conflict with the main character
- dialect
- speech patterns representative of a certain region or group
- flashback
- an interuption in the story to tell about something that happened earlier in time