1. VKR #1C

2. Narrator
The person or character who is telling the story

3. theme
The subject or message being written about or discussed

4. Central idea
The main point or purpose of a piece of writing, often stated in a thesis statement or topic sentence

5. Dialogue
Refers to the talking that goes on between characters in a story

6. tone
The author’s attitude or feeling about a piece of writing (serious, humorous, satiric)

7. mood
The feeling(s) a reader gets from a story: happy, sad, peaceful

8. suspense
The uncertainty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next in a story, novel, or drama

9. foreshadowing
The writer’s hints and clues about what is going to happen in the story

10. Irony
A contrast between expectation and reality

11. Verbal irony
Involves a contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant

12. Situational irony
Occurs when what happens is very different from what we expected would happen

13. Dramatic Irony
Occurs when the audience or the reader knows something a character does not know

14. Subplot
A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story

15. Parallel episodes
Repeated elements of the plot