Any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. 

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​Characters can have many traits that change and grow over time just like people in real life.

Characters

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• ​The Protagonist

  • ​​the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

• ​The Antagonist

  • ​A character in a story who opposes, or goes against the protagonist.

Theme:

Theme describes the central idea(s) that a piece of writing explores. It refers to that story’s underlying meaning/lesson. All works of literature contend with certain complex ideas, and theme is how a story or poem approaches these ideas.​

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The lesson, moral, or message of a story.

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The lesson a main character learns, that we can all learn from in our lives.

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Some themes in literature include the following:

• ​Love

• Hate

• Pride

• Redemption

• Courage

• ​Grace

• Acceptance

• Compassion​

• Cooperation​

• Perseverence

• Forgiveness

• Honesty​

​Where and when a story takes place.

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​Winter vs. Summer

​Future vs. Past

Country vs. City​

​Earth vs. Mars

​2020 vs. 1920

​Day vs. Night​

Setting

Context

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Context is the background information, environment, setting, framework, or surroundings of events or occurrences.

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Context illuminates the meaning and relevance of the text, and may be something cultural, historical, social, or political.

Plot

​The series of events in a story.

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• ​Exposition

• ​Conflict & Rising Action

• ​Climax

• ​Falling action

• ​Resoloution

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Conflict & Rising action is what happens in a story leading up to the climax. The conflict and rising actions often include problems that the characters have to face and solve.

​Conflict & Rising Action

The exposition is the beginning of the story wherein the setting and characters introduced.

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​It occurs within the first few chapters.

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Climax and Falling Action

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• ​The Climax of a story is the most exciting part, or major turning point of the plot wherein the conflict reaches its peak.

• The Falling Action ​is every action after the climax and before the end of the story. Falling Actions help to move the story towards the resolution of its central conflict.

​Resolution refers to the way in which the problem in the story is solved. How things end up in the story.

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