Literary Terms #2

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Inference

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A conclusion or opinion ('educated guess') that draws on known facts, evidence, or intuition to fill in missing information.

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Narrator

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Person or character telling the story.

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Point-of-View

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How the author chooses to tell the story; the perspective from which the story is told.

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First-Person

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The story is told by one of the characters (I, me, we, us, etc. is used).

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Third-Person

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Told by someone that’s not a character in the story (he, she, they, them, etc. are used).

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Limited

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The narrator only knows the feelings and thoughts of one character in the story.

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Omniscient

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Narrator knows the thoughts of all characters in the story.

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Internal Conflict

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A self-imposed challenge; the main character struggles with opposing ideas or feelings within his or her own mind; usually involves decision making (man vs. self).

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External Conflict

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The main character struggles with another person or with an outside force (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. fate).