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Events that make up a story.

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Power in Literature, Short Stories Part 4: Plot

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The Exposition is the start of the story where the characters, setting, and events are introduced.

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The rising action of the plot is the part of the story that includes incidents that will lead up to the climax of the plot.

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The climax is the big, intense or exciting part of the story. This part is where something big in the story is happening.

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The Falling Action in a plot is the part after the big event so it is now leading towards the resolution (the ending).

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The Resolution is the part where the story ends and everything is resolved.

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The setting of the story is the time and place that the story takes place in.

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The Protagonist of the story is the leading character of the story.
The Antagonist is the character that is opposing the protagonist. Just like joker as the antagonist and batman as the protagonist.

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Conflict is the disagreement or argument that appears in the story.

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"What is Conflict in Literature?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Internal Conflict is conflict inside of a character something that they are dealing with personally.

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External Conflict is when a character is going against something physically. For example man vs man, man vs society, and man vs nature.

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Theme is the main idea of the story.

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They are the authors choice of words.

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An arrangement of words and phrases to then create better formed sentence.

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Connotation and Denotation are two methods of describing the meaning of words.

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Tone is the attitude that the author towards a subject.

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Mood a way you feel like feelings.

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Flashbacks are when you get memories of the past time. Having to do with the past.

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Foreshadowing is when you predict what is gong to happened in the future of something. A indication of the future.

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Parallelism IS a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.

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Point of view is a way someone or something views things.

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First person POV is the point of view of the narrator telling the story.

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In a work of fiction (a short story or novel) or nonfiction (such as an essay, memoir, or autobiography), first-person point of view uses I, me, and other first-person pronouns to relate the thoughts, experiences, and observations of a narrator or a writer's persona. Also known as first-person narrative, personal point of view, or personal discourse.

Most of the texts in our collection of Classic British and American Essays rely on the first-person point of view.

See, for instance, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," by Zora Neale Hurston, and "What Life Means to Me," by Jack London.

​Examples and Observations

"In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people-the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter."
(George Orwell, opening sentences of "Shooting an Elephant," 1936)

"One summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. We all got ringworm from some kittens and had to rub Pond's Extract on our arms and legs night and morning, and my father rolled over in a canoe with all his clothes on; but outside of that the vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine."
(E.B. White, opening sentences of "Once More to the Lake," 1941)

"In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking."
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854)

"That's one thing I love about the first-person: It's such a great place to hide, especially with essays."
(Sarah Vowell, interviewed by Dave in "The Incredible, Entertaining Sarah Vowell." PowellsBooks.Blog, May 31, 2005)

The First Person in Technical Writing

"Many people think they should avoid the pronoun I in technical writing. Such practice, however, often leads to awkward sentences, with people referring to themselves in the third person as one or as the writer instead of as I.
One [substitute I] can only conclude that the absorption rate is too fast.
However, do not use the personal point of view when an impersonal point of view would be more appropriate or more effective because you need to emphasize the subject matter over the writer or the reader. In the following example, it does not help to personalize the situation; in fact, the impersonal version may be more tactful.
Personal
I received objections to my proposal from several of your managers.

Impersonal
Several managers have raised objections to the proposal.
Whether you adopt a personal or an impersonal point of view depends on the purpose and the readers of the document."
(Gerald J. Alred et al., Handbook of Technical Writing. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006)|

Self-Expression vs. Self-Indulgence

"While personal narrative does usually rely on strong voice for success, not all narratives need be personal, and many become muddled by the ill-considered use of the first person. . . .

"The line between self-expression and self-indulgence can be hard to discern. Test every temptation to use I, and try other devices if you care about voice."
(Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose. Broadway Books, 1999)

"Stay out of the story unless you affect it in some crucial way. Keep your eye on the material, not the mirror."
(William Ruehlmann, Stalking the Feature Story. Vintage Books, 1978)

The First Person Plural

"There are three sorts of we in business. There is the we that executives use to show that everyone is one happy family. There is the new fashionable we about crowds and social networks. And there is the traditional we that refers to we, the workers.

"The first we is phoney and to be avoided. The second is interesting, if a little overrated. The third, though deeply unfashionable, is essential, and any manager who doesn't understand it isn't going to get anywhere. . . .

"By far my favourite is We #3, which is the natural, colloquial we used by a group of workers."
(Lucy Kellaway, "We Are Not Family." Financial Times, Aug. 20, 2007)

The Demands of the First Person Singular

"The thoroughgoing first person is a demanding mode. It asks for the literary equivalent of perfect pitch. Even good writers occasionally lose control of their tone and let a self-congratulatory quality slip in. Eager to explain that their heart is in the right place, they baldly state that they care deeply about matters with which they appear to be only marginally acquainted. Pretending to confess to their bad behavior, they revel in their colorfulness. Insistently describing their own biases, they make it all too obvious that they wish to appear uncommonly reliable. Obviously, the first person doesn't guarantee honesty. Just because they are committing words to paper does not mean that writers stop telling themselves the lies that they've invented for getting through the night. Not everyone has Montaigne's gift for candor. Certainly some people are less likely to write honestly about themselves than about anyone else on earth."
(Tracy Kidder, Introduction. The Best American Essays 1994. Ticknor & Fields, 1994)

The Lighter Side of the First Person

"If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first-person, present indicative."
(Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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What Does It Mean to Write in the First-Person?

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In a work of fiction (a short story or novel) or nonfiction (such as an essay, memoir, or autobiography), first-person point of view uses I, me, and other first-person pronouns to relate the thoughts, experiences, and observations of a narrator or a writer's persona. Also known as first-person narrative, personal point of view, or personal discourse.

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A little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader.

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Second Person Point of View: Definition and Examples

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Second person POV is one you come across every day — but usually not in fiction. It is more common in nonfiction.

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Third Person objective is when a  narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters.

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Third Person Limited a narrative viewpoint where the story is told from the close perspective of one character.

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Third Person Omniscient  is the most open and flexible POV available to writers.

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Irony is when a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality.

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Verbal Irony is a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent.

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

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Rhetoric is a way of wright persuasive writing or just persuading in general.

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Ethos is the character or emotions of a speaker or writer that are expressed in the attempt to persuade an audience.

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Pathos is a response that is emotional or when you are trying to get the audience to feel what your talking about( feeling emotionally).

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Logos are arguments based on reasons and facts. You're trying to get your audience to think.

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Characterization is a description or features of someone or something.

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Direct Characterization is when the writer makes a direct chacrtersitc of the character's personality and also explains what how the character is like.

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Indirect Characterization is when the author gives hints on what the characters are really like by using thoughts, words, and deeds.

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A static Character is a type ocharacterter who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline.

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A dynamic character is one who learns a lesson or changes as a person.

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

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A round character describes any character whose depth and complexities are apparent throughout the story.

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A simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.

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A metaphor is a literary device that figuratively compares and equates two things that are not alike. 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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Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Hyperbole is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent different things.

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Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

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Euphemism is a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

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

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

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A phrase used over and over again.

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

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A Pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.

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