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The series of events that make up a story

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The part of the story that introduces characters and settings.

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How the events in a story build excitement until they reach their most exciting point

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The turning point of a story when the main character's problem begins to be solved or resolved.

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The part of the plot that comes after the story's climax.

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The resolution is the end of the story.

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A setting is where a story or event takes place.

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A protagonist is the main character of a story An antagonist is the character in a story who keeps the main character (the protagonist) from getting what he wants.

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Conflict is an event, circumstance, person, or personal characteristic that stands in the way of a character's pursuing a goal, even if that goal is simply survival.

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

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External conflict is a type of literary conflict in which the protagonist has to struggle against other characters (called antagonists), nature, or society.

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It happen between the character and an outside or external force.

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The conflict takes place outside of the character's mind.

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When the protagonist, either alone or together with the other characters, is in direct opposition to the forces.

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It  illustrates a character in conflict with technology.

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Theme is an underlying message or the big idea of a story.

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Diction is a writer's choice of words.

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AP English Language: Introduction to Diction

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The way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences.

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A denotation gives the exact definition of the word or phrase. A connotation is used based on the direct meaning of the word.

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DENOTATIONS & CONNOTATIONS | English Lesson

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Tone can be defined as how a piece of writing makes a reader feel towards a subject.

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Mood is the feeling created in the reader.

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A flashback is a scene that takes place before a story begins.

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Foreshadowing is when the author gives you hints about what will happen later on in the story.

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WHAT IS FORESHADOWING IN LITERATURE | 3-Minute Fiction Fixit

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Parallelism, in rhetoric, 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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Point of view refers to who is telling or narrating a story.

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First person is when the narrator's voice uses the words I, me, us, ours, it is usually the first person.

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The narrator describes what "you" do and lets you into your own thoughts and background.

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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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The third person omniscient point of view is the most open and flexible POV available to writers.

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A simile is 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. 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 a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human.

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Hyperbole, a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.

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Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols, be they words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.

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Oxymoron is itself an oxymoron; it is a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.

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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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A euphemism is a word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic. It uses figurative language to refer to a situation without having to confront it.

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Allusions are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

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Assonance, or “vowel rhyme,” is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What are Assonance and Consonance?": A Literary Guide for English Students and Teachers

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.

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Alliteration | Award Winning Alliteration Teaching Video | What is Alliteration?

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A cliché is an expression that was once innovative but has lost its novelty due to overuse.

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Cliché - Meaning, Pronunciation, Examples | How to pronounce Cliché in American English

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An idiom is an expression with a figurative or metaphorical meaning that differs from its literal meaning.

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

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A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.

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

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Irony occurs in literature AND in life 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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What is Irony? Definition and Its Types with Examples.

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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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Situational irony takes place when the opposite of what is expected actually happens. It is a form of figurative language, which simply means it is a literary device that goes beyond the literal meaning of words.

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Dramatic irony, 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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Characterization is a writer's tool, or “literary device” that occurs any time the author uses details to teach us about a person.

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

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

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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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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.

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A round character is deep and layered character in a story.

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Rhetoric refers to the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language.

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What Is Rhetoric?: Study Hall Writing Composition #10: ASU + Crash Course

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

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Pathos, or the appeal to emotion, means 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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Logos, or the appeal to logic, means to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.