| Term | Definition |
|---|
| novel | a story |
| narrator | person telling the story |
| fable | a story that teaches a moral or lesson |
| allegory | a story that symbolizes something |
| theme | main idea of the reading |
| setting | location of the story |
| indirect characterization | when the author shows the characters personality through word or actions |
| direct characterization | when the reader states the characters personality |
| conflict | turning point in the story |
| situational irony | the outcome turns out diffrent then expected |
| verbal irony | when the character says opposite of what they mean |
| dramatic irony | when the audience understands something the characters dont |
| plot | events in the story |
| exposition | backgroudn information of a charaecter |
| rising action | events leading to the climax |
| climax | turning point in the story |
| falling actions | what happens after the climax |
| resolution | solution to the problem |
| short story | fictional prose |
| portagonist | hero of the story |
| antagonist | oppostie of the protagonist |
| round character | fully developed character |
| flat character | predictable character |
| dynamic character | a character that undergos permanet change |
| static character | a character the undergoes no change in the story |
| stock character | a character quickly recognized byt he reader |
| central conflict | man vs man ptotagonist vs antagonist |
| external conflict | in literature, a struggle between the protagonist and another character against nature or some outside force |
| internal conflict | conflict in the characters mind |
| narrative | a story of events |
| genre | a way to classify literature |
| biography | an acount of a persons life |
| autobiography | an acount of a persons life writen by them |
| Bias | an opinion |
| connotation | feelign attactched to a word |
| denotation | dictionary definition |
| idiom | meanign that can not be determined by literal defonition |
| satire | the use of irony or sarcasm |
| farce | humor play |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison without like or as |
| oxymoron | two contradictory terms |
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