Molly Lit 8 Vocab

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antagonist

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a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist

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character

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a person r an aminal that takes part in the action of a literary work. a main or major character is the most important charactor in a story.

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conflict

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a struggle between opposing forces. one of the most important element of a story or novel or plays.

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dialogue

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a conversation between charactors

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plot

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is the sequence of events in which each eventin a novel results from a previous one and causes the next.

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falling action

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all of the action that happens after the climax but before the resolution

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moral

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a lesson taught by literarry work. a fable usually ends witha moral directly stated.

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fiction

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is prose wrighting that tells about imaginary characters and events (fiction is fantasy)

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1st person narrator

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one who tells the story and participates in its action

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3rd person narrator

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one who stands outside the action and speaks about it

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non fiction

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is a prose of writhing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people

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protaganist

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the main charactor in a literary work

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rising action

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the action that happens after the conflict is introduced but before the climax

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sensory language

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wrighting or speach that appeals to one or more of the five immages

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memoir

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a form of autobiographical wrighting that deals with the righters memor of someone or of a significant event

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climax

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the peak in a story, usually when the main problem is introduced