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plot, in fiction, the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author. Plot involves a considerably higher level of narrative organization than normally occurs in a story or fable.

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Exposition is a literary device that is meant to relay background information about a main character, setting, event or other element of the narrative.

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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. It may or may not coincide with the highest point of interest in the drama.

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the elements of plot after a story's climax and before the resolution.

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the end of the story. It occurs after the CLIMAX. It is when you learn what happens to the characters after the CONFLICT is resolved.

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A setting is the time and place in which a story is told. All stories have settings—even this one.

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The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals. 2. The words “protagonist” and “antagonist” are antonyms.

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thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire. It's basically when a character wants something but something else gets in the way. Maybe the character wants a thing but can't get it.

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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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sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.Sep 3, 2021

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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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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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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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Webinar: Professional Learning Series - Syntax

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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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(ENGLISH) What are Denotation and Connotation? | #iQuestionPH

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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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Analyzing tone through word choice | Reading | Khan Academy

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

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Foreshadowing | Definition & Examples of Foreshadowing

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component of literary style in both prose and poetry, 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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Parallelism Feature of Size - Rules for DRF

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the “eye” or narrative voice through which you tell a story.

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Changes in POV and dramatic irony | Reading | Khan Academy

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the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.

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

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a narration style that gives the perspective of a single character

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an omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing. While the narration outside of any one character, the narrator may occasionally access the consciousness of a few or many different characters.

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

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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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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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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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an artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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VocabularyHelp - Learn English Words With Meaning

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Learn English Words - OXYMORON - Meaning, Vocabulary Lesson with Pictures and Examples

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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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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 Lectures

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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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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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a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.

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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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What Is An Idiom? 90 Common English Idioms Frequently Used in Daily English Conversations

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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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What are puns? 🤔 | Puns in English | Learn with examples

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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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 is a figure of speech. The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says.

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What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner

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Situational irony involves a striking reversal of what is expected or intended: a person sidesteps a pothole to avoid injury and in doing so steps into another pothole and injures themselves.

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Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something.

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The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like. Direct characterization tells the reader or viewer.

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Indirect characterization is the process of describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue. An author will use this type of characterization to guide the reader in making their own conclusions about a character.

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In talk about literature, this has led to the development of a crude but useful terminological distinction of two sorts of characterization: "static" and "dynamic." A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end

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(If we were talking computer talk, we'd say that inside this program that term is "reserved.") In talk about literature, the term "dynamic character" means simply a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story.

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Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

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round characters, characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature. Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. By contrast, round characters are complex and undergo development

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the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

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the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.

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a quality that evokes pity or sadness

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the Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order, identified in the Gospel of John with the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ.

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The Three Persuasive Appeals: Logos, Ethos, and Pathos