Fiction
main character
Protagonist
She laughs like a hyena.
Simile
Time period and place of a story
Setting
Introduction of characters, setting and conflict
Exposition
a story that could really happen
realistic fiction
the person that is against the main character
Antagonist
School is a prison.
Metaphor
Struggle between two opposing forces.
Conflict
Conflict is obvious is this part of the story as tension builds.
Rising action
A fictional story based on a real event in history
historical fiction
main character is telling the story
first person
I have told you a million times to clean your room.
hyperbole
The author's use of clues or hints suggesting events that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Turning point of the story. The point of the story where the main character will succeed or fail at resolving the conflict.
Climax
A story based on a society that is undesirable and deeply disturbed
dystopia
narrator is outside of story
third person point of view
The chair moaned when the overweight man sat down.
Personification
The author interrupts the plot to provide information that happened before the start of the story.
Flashback
The main character begins to resolve the conflict.
Falling action
a story that describes the future or technology that hasn't been invented
science fiction
Message or moral of the story
Theme
Chocolate was her Achilles' heel.
Allusion
Something happens to set plot events into motion
Triggering event or initiating event
End of the story.
Resolution or denouement
a story that is based on kingdoms or worlds with magic, myths, wizardry or talking animals
Fantasy