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The person who wrote the story.

Author

100

The main people or animals in the story.

Characters

100

The hero or good person in the story.

Protagonist

100

The villain or bad person in the story.

Antagonist

100

The sequence of events in the story (what happened 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)

Plot

200

The reason the author wrote the story (inform, persuade, entertain, caution, etc.)

Author's Purpose

200

Characters who are the opposite of each other.

Character Foils

200

How the story begins (it usually describes the characters, the setting, or the backstory).

Exposition

200

Important events at the beginning of the story that lead to the development of the problem.

Rising Action

200

The highest point of suspense or interest in the story (the OMG moment)

Climax

300

What the reader thinks is going to happen in the story based on context clues.

Prediction/Inference

300

The good and bad features which describe a character in the story.

Character Traits

300

Important events towards the conclusion of the story that lead to the closing of the problem.

Falling Action

300

How the story ends (it usually tells us how the conflict was solved)

Resolution

300

The problem in the story.

Conflict

400

A problem you might have which you cannot control (another person, your community, nature, technology, fate, or the supernatural)

External Conflict

400

A problem you might have which you can control (your emotions, moral beliefs, religious stance, political views, love life, and your self-image).

Internal Conflict

400

Where the story takes place.

Setting

400

A word or phrase that summarizes what the main topic or message of the story was.

Theme

400

The overall life lesson the reader is supposed to learn after reading the story.

Moral

500

A detailed account of what the whole story was about.

Summary

500

A restatement of the summary of a text or passage using simplified words.

Paraphrase

500

A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word.

Synonyms

500

A word opposite in meaning to another

Antonyms

500

The beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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