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the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

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Introduction to Line Plot Graphs with Matplotlib

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It is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story.

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Rising action is the section of a story that leads toward its climax.

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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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Rising action is the section of a story that leads toward its climax

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The resolution is the end of the story.

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A setting is 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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conflict means thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire.

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

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External conflict sets a character against something or someone beyond their control.

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involves two characters struggling against each other.

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Society as conflict. If a protagonist is going against the grain of what his or her society and people expect,

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conflict is an external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature,

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is when a protagonist is facing machines or technology (such as mechanical failure or robots) and must prevail against it.

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theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

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diction, choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

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

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syntax refers to the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence

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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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This video explains the difference between connotation and denotation. It is intended for use as direct instruction for a flipped classroom or as a supplemental material for remediation. It is aligned to the VASOL ELA7.4d: Identify Connotations. This is part of a larger lesson.

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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: How to Foreshadow in a Novel Effectively & Sneakily

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

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the vantage point from which a story is presented

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The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an "I,"

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

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is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally.

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This is a common form of third-person narration in which the teller of the tale, who often appears to speak with the voice of the author himself, assumes an omniscient (all-knowing) perspective on the story being told: diving into private thoughts, narrating secret or hidden events,

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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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A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.

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

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Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things.

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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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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 an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or offensive.

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Euphemisms That Native Speakers Use All the Time

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allusion, in literature, an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.

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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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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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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 cliché (UK: /ˈkliːʃeɪ/ or US: /kliˈʃeɪ/) is an element of an artistic work, saying, or idea that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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VocabularyHelp - Learn English Words With Meaning

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Learn English Words - Cliche (Vocabulary Video)

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An idiom is a widely used saying or expression that contains a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning.

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Useful Idioms in 60 minutes (Build your vocabulary!)

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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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In simplest terms, 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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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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Situational irony is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected. Some everyday examples of situational irony are a fire station burning down, or someone posting on Twitter that social media is a waste of time.

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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 the act of creating and describing characters in literature. Characterization includes both descriptions of a character's physical attributes as well as the character's personality. The way that characters act, think, and speak also adds to their characterization.

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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, on the other hand, consists of the author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character's thoughts, words, and deeds. This requires the audience to make inferences about why a character would say or do those things.

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A static character is a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline. Their environment may change, but they retain the same personality and outlook as they had at the beginning of the story.

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A dynamic character is a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story. The development of a dynamic character is often subtle and unstated and is not due to a change in the character's circumstances.

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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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Rhetoric refers to the study and uses of written, spoken and visual language. It investigates how language is used to organize and maintain social groups, construct meanings and identities, coordinate behavior, mediate power, produce change, and create knowledge.

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

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Ethos (Greek for “character”) • Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness. • Takes one of two forms: “appeal to character” or “appeal to credibility.” • A writer may show “ethos” through her tone, such as taking care to show more. than one side of an issue before arguing for her side.

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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. To use logos, the author makes clear, logical connections between ideas, and includes the use of facts and statistics. Using historical and literal analogies to make a logical argument is another strategy.