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Plot: Plot is the order of events that occur within a story

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Stages of the Plot Diagram: Vocabulary Terms and Definitions

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Exposition: The exposition is the start or the first part of the story that intro duces characters and settings.

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Rising Action: Rising action is when the problem of the story strats or is introduced.

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Climax: The climax is the most interesting part of a story, the turing point or the main conflict occurs.

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Falling Action: The falling action is the solving of the issue and the loss of tension after the climax

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Resolution: The resolutoin is when the problem is solved and you learn what happens to the charaters afterwards.

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Setting: The setting is the place and time in which the story takes place

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Protagonist: This is the main character normally the good guy in a story
Antagonist: This is the rival to the main charter in a story

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Conflict: The main problem within the story

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Internal Conflict: When the character has a conflict that happens within themself, normally being a man vs. self conflict.

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External Conflict: External conflict is when the character's main conflict is with something other than himself, man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature, man vs. technology.

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Theme: Theme is the lesson that can be taken away from the story, there can be more than one

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Dictation: The choice of words with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectivness

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Syntax: The set of rules that determines the order of the words in a scentence

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Connotation: To use a word that is used in a different way than its literal meaning
Denotation: The literal meaning of a word

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Tone: The way the author conveys his or her attitude in the writing

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Mood: Mood is the way that the reader feels while reading the text

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Flashback: Going back to a memory from either earlier in the selection or even befor it took place

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is a Flashback?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Foreshadowing: The author giving hints or tips for events that are coming up

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Foreshadowing?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Parallelism: 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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POV: The position from ehich the story is told from

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First Person POV: The story is told from a characters point of veiw as if you are them

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Second Person POV: The author is speaking directly to the reader as if they were in the story

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Third person objective: The narrorator knows whats happening but not the thoughts or motivations of any of the characters

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Third Person limited: The narrorator is telling the story and only knows the thoughts and motivations of one character

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Third Person Omniscient: This is when the narrorator knows all characters thoughts and motivations be hind their actions

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Simile: A simile is comparing 2 unlike thngs, using the word like or as

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Metaphor: A metaphor is ocmparing 2 unalike things without using like or as

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Personification: Giving human like attributes to something that isn'u human

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Hyperbole: An extreme exageration

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Symbolism: When something is used to symbolise a larger idea in lierature

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Oxymoron: When there are words or frames placed together that can be contradicting

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is an Oxymoron?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Euphemism: An appropriate term used to replace someothing that can be considered inappropriate

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Allusion: Quick refrances in literature that have purpose

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is an Allusion?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Assonance: The repetition of a vowel sound in a line of text

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What is Assonance? || Literary Device Lectures

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Alliteration: Repetition of the same starting sound of words

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Alliteration?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Cliche: Something that is over used to the point of it loosing its origional meaing

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Idiom: A phrase that people recognize to mean something other than what it says.

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

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Pun: Using words that have multiple meanings to make a joke.

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Puns for Kids from Pasqually - "Macaroni & Sneeze" | Chuck E. Shorts

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Irony: When the author says or does the opposite of what was expected to do

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What is Irony?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Verbal irony: The speaker says the opposite of what they mean

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Situational Irony: The event that occurs is the opposite of what was expected to happen

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Dramatic Irony: When the reader knows more about what is happening than the characters

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Characterization: The development of a character in a work of literature

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Direct Characterization: The author tells the audiecnce about the characters personality

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Indirect chracterization: The author doesn't explicitly tell about the chracters personality

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Static Chracter: A character that doesnt experience much change in the story and stays the same until the end of the story

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Dynamic Charcater: A charcter that experiences change as a person somewhere in the story

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Flat Character: They are not complicated and they dont change throughout the story

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Round Character: Characters that are decribed by there change within the story

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Rhetoric: The study and uses of written and spoken laguage

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How to use rhetoric to get what you want - Camille A. Langston

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Ethos: Uses the writer or authors feelings to persuade the audience

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Pathos: Trying to persuade the audience by showing specific emotions so they feel how the author wants them to feel

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Logos: Uses facts and statistics to persuade the audience