characters - people/animals who take part in the action, protagonist - main character in a literary work, antagonist - a character in a conflict with the main character (protagonist). The tension between them creates a story, characterization - how the author shows who the characters are - through, speech, actions, appearance, foreshadowing - author's use of clues that hint at what might happen later on in the story. This creates suspense., flashback - the author gives you background into a character by telling you a story from the past, author's purpose - the reader has to discover this - it is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. It is to inform, persuade, or entertain, setting - time and place of a story, novel, or play, plot - sequence of SIGNIFICANT events that impact the total outcome of the story., conflict - the struggle between two or more opposing forces - it causes the action in a story, novel or play, internal conflict - takes place within the mind of a character (man vs. himself), external conflict - character struggles against some outside force (man vs man, man vs. nature, man vs. society), rising action - a conflict is presented which creates a series of events leading up to the climax, climax - the point of the greatest intensity in a story, novel, or play; it is the moment of the greatest tension, when the outcome of the plot hangs in the balance, falling action/denouement - the events following the conflict that show how the conflict is being resolved - all questions are answered, resolution - the outcome of the conflict in a plot, theme - author's central message, concern, or PURPOSE in a literary work, mood - the feeling the author causes a reader to have when reading, tone - the author's attitude towards his subject,

Brooke ELA Final - Characters

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