| Term | Definition |
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| round character | the main character who learns a or the lesson involving the conflict and who changes their perspective, point of view, or outlook on something that really matters |
| flat character | a or the side character of the story that holds one or two traits that are not changed throughout the story. |
| climax | the point of greatest intensity or the most important event in a book or story. |
| conflict | the struggle or quarrel in the story |
| exposition | when the principle theme is introduced in the story and exposes/ introduced the round characters and some flat ones |
| foreshadowing | to prefigure or indicate beforehand; A time in which an author drops subtitle hints about the plot developments to come later in the story. |
| irony | an event that causes a reaction that is opposite to expectations; a twist in what is expected |
| metaphor | a figure is speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| mood | main emotions of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work. The mood of a work is not always what might be expected based on its subject. |
| plot | the scheme or main plan in a story that has dramatic defect along with literature |
| point of view | the reader's interpretation of how their perspective of the story and their way of how they see things. |
| resolution | the part in a story when the conflicts are solved and the group or person solves the problem in a situation. The resolution is also a time in the story that doesn't always have a happy ending. |
| setting | the time, place, smells, transportation, ect. That make the story's "time and place" and helps the way of your point of view (to the readers) and helps you visualize the story. |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike objects using like or as |
| symbolism | the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. |
| theme | the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. |
| tone | the attitude of the author toward his subject or toward the reader. |
| alliteration | Repeating a continent sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound |
| personification | giving human traits (qualities, feelings, actions, ect.) to non-human objects. (things, colors, qualities, or ideas |
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