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Vocabulary from the Book
Literary Devices
- Setting - where and when the story takes place
- Characters - the people in a story
- Protagonist - the main character
- Antagonist - the main character's opponent (may be a person, society, or nature)
- Conflict - the struggle the main character has
- Internal Conflict - the struggle that occurs within the character's mind (character vs. himself/herself)
- External Conflict - the struggle that takes place between the main character and some outside force
- character vs. character
- character vs. nature
- character vs. technology
- character vs. society
- Plot - the sequence of events which happen in a story
- Background - the characters and setting are introduced
- Rising Action - the events leading up to the problem or conflict
- Climax - the most exciting part of the story where the main character comes face to face with the conflict
- Falling Action - the characters work to solve the problem
- Resolution - the problem is solved and the story comes to an end
- Point of View - who is telling the story
- 1st person - I, me - a character in the story tells the story
- 3rd person - he, she, it - a narrator outside the story tells the story
- Tone - the author's attitude toward the subject
- Mood - the way the story makes the reader feel
- Foreshadowing - when the author hints about what is going to happen
- Theme - moral of the story, what the author wants to teach you (examples: love, fear, courage)
- Flashback - a scene that interrupts the story to describe an earlier event
Important Notes
- Blackouts - at night, everyone had to turn off any lights and cover all the windows so that enemy pilots couldn't see light to drop bombs
- Fury - what Bruno hears for Fuhrer, which is what Germans called Hitler
- Out-With - what Bruno and Gretel hear instead of Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland