plot - exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution

exposition - beginning of story, meet the characters and learn the setting

rising action - introduces problems/conflicts and questions

conflict - the problems in the story; what does the protagonist need to overcome?

climax - the turning point of the story

falling action - character overcomes conflict; story begins to slow down

resolution - ties up the end of the story and answers any remaining questions

protagonist - character that has to overcome a problem

antagonist - character that causes the problem

characters - people, animals, or things in the story

foil - two characters that have opposite traits

theme - the message

mood - how does the story make you feel?

tone - how does the author want you to feel?

main idea - main message the author is trying to convey

inference - educated guess

foreshadowing - hints and clues as to what is coming in the future

hyperbole - exaggeration

flashback - a visit to an event that happened in the past

allusion - a word or phrase that hints to something or someone famous or well known

analogy - a comparison using two things and comparing them to other things (hand is to human as paw is to dog)

metaphor - comparison of two thing without using like or as

simile - comparison of two things using like or as

personification - giving human traits to nonhuman things

onomatopoeia - words that make the same sound as the word

symbolism - things that symbolize other things

assonance - the repetition of sounds in words in a story or poem

alliteration - 3 or more words in a sentence that start with the same letter sound

point of view - the position from which a story is told

true - true/false I will look at my questions and characters for both stories we read in class