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A plot is the sequence of event 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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a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

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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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End of the story.

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The time and place in which a story is told.

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The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals.

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thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire.

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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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LITERARY TERM - DICTION - ENGLISH LITERATURE

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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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Denotation and connotation literary devices, explained with examples.

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the stylistic means by which an author conveys his/her attitude(s) in a work of literature.

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a feeling that can refer to the emotional state of mind of a person/character or the atmosphere of a story.

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a scene that takes place before a story begins.

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a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

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Foreshadowing | Definition & Examples of Foreshadowing

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

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Parallelism: Explanation, Effects, Example | AP Lang Rhetorical Strategies

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Direct comparison of two UNLIKE things "Like" or "as".

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Metaphor: A direct comparison between two thing unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as".
example: She's  the giggle at a funeral.

Extended Metaphor: A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
example: A broken relationship and divorce career.

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Giving a non-human things human characteristics .
example: The leaves danced in the wind.

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EXTREME exaggeration
example: Your mama is so ugly they didn't give her a costume when she auditioned for Star Wars.

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A literacy device that uses symbols, be they words, people marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.
Example: Harry's lightning balt-shaped scar symbolizes they attempt on his life by lord Voldemort and the love that saved him.

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It is a rhetorical term that describe words or phrase that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.

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Oxymoron | figure of speech | literary term | literature

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the perspective from which an author tells a story.

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uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” in order to tell a story from the narrator's perspective.

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uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader.

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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 narrative viewpoint where the story is told from the close perspective of one character.

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the most open and flexible POV available to writers.

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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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A figure of speech.

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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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Stories where characters are against each other.

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When a protagonist has a strong belief against the majority of the community or surroundings and decides to act on it.

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an external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature, such as a storm or tornado or snow.

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relies primarily on action rather than internal thought.

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

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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.