The correct answer is plot. Theme is the work's main idea (the "why" of the work), and there usually are more themes in a single work. Narrator is the "I" of the story, someone who tells it. The setting is the "when and where" of the story, the time-place frame. The plot is the "what" - what happens.
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Waverly tricks her mother by saying she doesn't want to play in a chess tournament, knowing this will cause her mother to make her play.
A. The narrator constantly struggles between a dreamlike state and reality.
Parallel structure: means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance in the sentence
so maybe ... " but the good introduction she had been writing all night did not meet her standards "
I'm not 100% sure on my parallel structured ending suggestion.lol
Guesses is the plural form
