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Plot

The authors arrangement of incidents in a story

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In media res

In this kind of plot, we enter the story on the verge of some important moment

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Flashback

A device that informs us about events that happened before the opening scene of a work

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Character

An imagined person in a story is confronted with a problem leading to a climactic struggle that is followed by a resolution of the problem

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Exposition

The background information that reader needs to make sense of the situation in which the characters are placed

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Rising action

A complication that intensifies the situation

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Conflict

The problem in the story

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Foreshadowing

A suggestion of what is yet to come

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Protagonist or hero

The central character who engages our interest and empathy

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Heroine

The central character of a story can be despicable as well as heroic

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Antagonist

The force that opposes the protagonist

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Suspense

The reader is made anxious about what is goring to happen

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Climax

The moment of greatness emotional tension

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Resolution or denouement

The resolution of the conflict or the solving of the problem

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Setting

The context in which the action of a story occurs

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Theme

The central idea or meaning of a story- provides unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting point of view, symbols, and other elements of a story are organized

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