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| antagonistnoun:  the main character who opposes the protagonist in a narrative or play 
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| characternoun : A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.  | 
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| character traitsThe individual qualities that make each character unique. | 
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| characterizationThe methods a writer uses to develop the personality of the character | 
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| conflictnoun:  a challenge the main character must face in order to progress through the plot of a story
  
 
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| fictionnoun: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact  | 
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| narrativenoun: a story that details a sequence of events | 
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| plotnoun: the sequence of interconnected events within the story of a play, novel, film, or other narrative literary work. 
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| point of viewwho is telling the story and what they know or can see  
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| protagonistnoun: The main character in a fictional story  | 
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