Terminology

A person in a story

The change in characters

The way a person looks, talks, acts or thinks

A character who changes in personality

A character that remains the same

The character who drives the story forward

The main opposition working against the leading character

The reason behind an individual actions

A conversation between characters

The way a character looks

A variety of language

The time and place the story happens

Descriptive language that is not literally true

A comparison using as or like

A comparison not using as or like

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

Language that creates a mental image

Something that stands for something else

The literal meaning of a word

The emotion that a word might make us think of

The main story of a book

A problem which the protagonist will have to resolve

A problem that lies within the character

A problem that is not inside the character

The way the character resolves the problem

The section at the start of the story where characters and setting are introduced

The main part of a story that builds the conflict and increases the tension

Excitement

The point of highest tension in a story

The section after the climax where the tension decreases

The final part of the story that tells readers how it all ended

The opposite of what was expected

To move back in time to an earlier incident