American Literature 1

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character a person, an animal, or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a literary work characterization consists of all the techniques a writer uses to create and develop characters climax turning point; point of maximum interest conflict struggle between opposing forces exposition usually found at the beginning of a story; serves to introduce the main characters and establish the setting fiction prose writing that tells an imaginary story persuasion a type of writing meant to sway readers' feelings, beliefs or actions plot sequence of events in a story resolution part of the plot where loose ends are tied up and the story is brought to a close perspective point of view from which a story is told