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| a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a story |
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| the most important character |
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| a character who takes part in the story but they are not the focus of the story |
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| the author tells us directly what the character is like |
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| indirect characterization |
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| the author let's the reader draw his or her own conclusions about the character based on actions, appearance, behavior or language (body language) |
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| one sided and often stereotypical |
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| assuming that everybody in a group has the characteristics |
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| fully developed and exhibits many traits often both faults and virtues |
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| a character who grows and changes during the course of a story |
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| a character or force in conflict with the main character |
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| the sequence of events in a story |
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| the introduction or part of a story that introduces characters, setting and situations |
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| events that introduce the central conflict and lead up to the climax |
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| the highest point of interest or highest point of suspense: the readers' highest point of emotional involvement |
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| events after the climax that lead to resolution or events that resolve the conflic |
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| near the end of a story, an even that resolves the conflict of the story (will not always be one) |
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| a charictor that strugles with some outside force |
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| takes place inside a charictor,s minethe; charrictor struggles to make distion, take action or over come a feeling |
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| a diffrece betweem the way things seem to be and the way things are. for example, a story not turn out the way you exspected it to- surprise ending |
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| authers use of clues to hint of what might happen |
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| the reason that exsplains or pertly exsplains a charictors thoughts feelings and actions; the reason for what prople do |
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| sensory language-imagery-sensory details-descriptive writing |
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| words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses, usually makes the reading more interesting (see, touch, smell, taste, feel) |
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| the one who is telling the story (or narrator). a story can be told by a character in the story or a character outside the story |
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| the one who is telling the story (or narrator). a story can be told by a character in the story or a character outside the story |
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| first person narrator (point of view) |
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| a character who uses first person pronoun I. Usually a character in the story that is telling the story. |
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| third person narrator (point of view) |
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| one person is telling the story about another person or another happening-third narrator uses third person pronouns such as he and she or pronouns like they and them |
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| why the author wrote something |
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| a scene in a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event that occurred in the past |
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character against character
character against nature (weather, animals, natural disasters)
character against self (internal conflict)
character against society (the excepted customs or rules of a group of people)
character against fate (what happens to you of which you have no control) |
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| suspense is a feeling of anxiety about uncertainty of the outcome of events |
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| suspense is a feeling of anxiety about uncertainty of the outcome of events |
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| the time and place of an action |
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| the feeling created in a reader by a book or passage |
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| is a form of a language spoken by a particular people in a specific region or group |
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| conclusions that can be drawn by available information. getting information about a character or a situation without being told directly |
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| a character whose actions are inspiring, noble or helpful (hero=male, heroine=female) |
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| a character whose actions are inspiring, noble or helpful (hero=male, heroine=female) |
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| conversations between characters |
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| conversations between characters |
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| relationship between events in which on event (the cause) is the reason why another takes place (the effect) |
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| central message in a work of literature which is usually states as a generalization about human beings or about life. |
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| one that is stated directly in the text (does not happen often) |
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| implied (or unstated theme) |
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