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This central character drives the action and faces the main conflict in a story, often serving as the hero or main focus.
- Foil
- Antagonist
- Narrator
- Protagonist
This character opposes the main character, creating obstacles and conflict throughout the narrative.
- Sidekick
- Mentor
- Protagonist
- Antagonist
This literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as," such as "her smile was like sunshine."
- Hyperbole
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Personification
This device compares two unlike things directly by stating one thing IS another, such as "time is money."
- Allegory
- Metaphor
- Symbolism
- Simile
The time and place where a story unfolds—including era, location, and social environment—is known by this term.
- Theme
- Plot
- Setting
- Mood
This term describes the sequence of events in a narrative, including exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution.
- Theme
- Tone
- Plot
- Genre
This underlying message or central idea that an author explores throughout a work gives the story its deeper meaning.
- Plot
- Tone
- Theme
- Motif
When the reader knows crucial information that characters do not, creating tension or humor, this technique is at work.
- Dramatic irony
- Verbal irony
- Situational irony
- Sarcasm
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