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✔✔conflict - ✔✔a struggle between two or more forces
✔✔point of view - ✔✔the perspective from which the story is told
✔✔setting - ✔✔the time and place where the story occurs
✔✔theme - ✔✔central topic or idea explored in a text
✔✔exposition - ✔✔background info given at the beginning
✔✔rising action - ✔✔the "first hurdles" in the literary work; the build up to the climax
✔✔climax - ✔✔the "turning point" of the literary work
✔✔falling action - ✔✔the results or effects of the climax
✔✔resolution - ✔✔the moment when all loose ends are tied up and all questions
answered
✔✔ allusion - ✔✔a reference to person, event, or another work of literature
✔✔idiom - ✔✔a common, often used expression, that doesn't make sense if taken
literally
✔✔imagery - ✔✔description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch,
taste)
✔✔irony - ✔✔the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal
meaning
✔✔symbol - ✔✔an object, person, or place used to represent or stand for something
else
✔✔hyperbole - ✔✔an over-exaggeration
✔✔metaphor - ✔✔comparison of two things without the use of "like" or "as"
✔✔personification - ✔✔giving human characteristics to something nonhuman
✔✔simile - ✔✔a comparison of two unlike things using the words "as" or "like"