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The story line or order of events in a book, play, or movie.

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Plot Mountain! | The Plot Diagram Song | Scratch Garden

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Narrative exposition is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative.

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The rising action is the second of six essential plot elements, which comes right after the opening of a story, otherwise known as the exposition. It is usually made up of a series of events that lay down breadcrumbs, ask questions, and set roadblocks and conflicts that must be overcome.

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The most exciting or interesting point in a series of events.

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The period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. This portion of the narrative helps deflate the plot's tension and gives the character time to unwind after the emotional scene.

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The resolution is 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.

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

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Conflict is a major literary element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.

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Conflict between the main character and any external force

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Man is commonly seen in literature and modern storytelling and is a type of external conflict. This conflict will most often play out between a protagonist and his or her antagonist, although it can also appear between friends or acquaintances, as well.

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The man vs. society conflict denotes a story in which an individual (or a small group of individuals) chooses to or is forced to fight against their society or community.

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An external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature.

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Man vs. technology is a type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology (such as a robot, a machine, or a mechanical failure)

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

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AP English Language: Introduction to Diction

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

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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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DENOTATIONS & CONNOTATIONS | English Lesson

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literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.

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literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

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A scene that takes place before a story begins. Flashbacks interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character's life.

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

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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: Explanation, Effects, Example | AP Lang Rhetorical Strategies

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A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

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"Understanding Point of View: First Person and Third Person" by Waterford.org

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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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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. As the name implies, an omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing.

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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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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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

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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? 🤔 | Assonance in English | Learn with examples

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

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

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Cliché MEANING | ENGLISH AND HINDI | USE IN SENTENCE | SYNONYMS

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

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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 is a Pun? Definition with Examples | Figures of Speech

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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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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 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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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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the creation or construction of a fictional character.

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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.

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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 type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline.

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A dynamic character is one who learns a lesson or changes as a person (either for better or for worse).

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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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Round character definition. In fiction, round characters are lifelike figures with complex, multifaceted personalities.

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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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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.