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the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language.

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AP English Language: The Rhetorical Situation

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A plot is the sequence of events that make up a story.

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The background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.

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The section of a story that leads toward its climax.

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the decisive moment, or turning point, at which the rising action of the play is reversed to falling action.

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the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax.

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The end of the story.

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the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction.

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The protagonists are generally the good guys while antagonists are generally the bad guys.

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a conflict is a literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.

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Story Elements - Conflict - Literacy Short Clips

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when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.

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choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

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the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence

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DENOTATION: The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary. CONNOTATION: The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.

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The author's attitude is expressed through the words and details he or she selects.

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the emotion the author strives to evoke in the reader.

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interrupts that chronological sequence, the front line action or “present” line of the story, to show readers a scene that unfolded in the past.

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a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.

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WHAT IS FORESHADOWING IN LITERATURE | 3-Minute Fiction Fixit

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in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What Is Parallelism?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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the types of conflicts within literature that occur outside of the main character.

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involves two characters struggling against each other.

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a story in which an individual chooses to or is forced to fight against their society or community.

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a struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature,

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a type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology and must prevail against it.

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the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

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used especially in describing a method of shooting a scene or film that expresses the attitude of the director or writer toward the material or of a character in a scene.

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The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an "I,"

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a little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you.

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the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters.

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a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally

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This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told: diving into private thoughts, narrating secret or hidden events,

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a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”

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A metaphor is a literary device that figuratively compares and equates two things that are not alike.

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An extended metaphor is a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

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a poetic literary device in which non-living things are given human traits.

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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it is a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.

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A euphemism is the substitution of a less offensive or agreeable expression for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasant.

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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What is Assonance? 🤔 Literary Device Guide ✍️ English Writing Lesson

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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a trite phrase or expression also : the idea expressed by it.

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a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

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Idioms | Award Winning Teaching Video | What Is An Idiom? | Figurative Language

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A pun is a play on words, centering on a word with more than one meaning or words that sound alike.

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What is a Pun? Definition with Examples | Figures of Speech

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whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.

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occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from—and often opposite to—what they actually mean.

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the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

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a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.

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a name for the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers.

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when an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly.

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a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.

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one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end

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a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story.

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two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.

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characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature.

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Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness.

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to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.

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to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.