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The series of related events in a story or play,
sometimes called the story line.

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Story Elements - Plot - Main Events - Literacy Short Clips

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The beginning of the story. It is where the characters and setting are introduced.

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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 most intense, exciting, or important point of something.

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The part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.

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The resolution is the end of the story.

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The location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place.

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Andy's House is the house where Andy, Molly, and their mother live. It appears in Toy Story franchise. At the end of Toy Story, the family moves to a new house.

The Living Room is where Andy has his birthday party and also plays with Woody. This is in the house.

is where all of Andy's toys are kept and where their stories and adventures begin in the films Toy Story, and . Andy's Room is often used by Woody to hold a staff meeting for toys.

In Toy Story, Andy shares a room with his baby sister Molly. Andy's room starts out decorated with cowboy themed decor. A little later, a Buzz Lightyear action figure joins the toys in the room, and Buzz, unaware that he is a toy, thinks his spaceship has crash-landed on a strange planet. It is later seen that Andy's bedroom is located across the yard from Sid's room. Because of Andy's newfound interest in his Buzz Lightyear toy, the bedroom's cowboy themed decor is replaced with Space Ranger themed decor.

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Andy's House is the house where Andy, Molly, and their mother live. It appears in Toy Story franchise. At the end of Toy Story, the family moves to a new house. The Living Room is where Andy has his birthday party and also plays with Woody. This is in the house.

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comparison using like or as

He runs as fast as a cheetah.
I moved like lightning when I saw the mouse crawl across the floor.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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Comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that continues over several lines of text.

Metaphor- She is drowning in a sea of grief.

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English Lesson #15 | What are Metaphors?

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Definition: Giving non-human things human characteristics.
Example: The walls were talking. The stairs screamed in agony as he began to climb them.

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Oregon State University - School of Writing, Literature and Film

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

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An over exaggeration of emotions, and over statement.

Examples: I have told you a million times to clean your room

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A symbol is a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning and stands for smoothing more than itself.

Symbolism is using symbols to represent qualities or ideas.
The flag still flew high in the sky. Flag- strength, freedom,
She wore a white wedding dress gown. White- peace, innocents, purity.

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Combines two opposites or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Example: Jumbo shrimp, bitter sweet. Deafening Silence

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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 used for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or horrible. A way of making something sound not so bad.

Examples:
Euphemism: "Were going to have to let you go."
Really saying: You are fired!

Euphemism: Friendly fire
Really: In the army, they have killed their own people.

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Making a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, sports, science, culture, etc.

Example: He is a real Romeo.
He slapped like Will.
He's got the Midas touch.

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.

Example: The tide rises, the tide falls.

The fat cat sat on a mat inside a hat

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What is assonance? 🤔 | Assonance in English | Learn with examples

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The repetition of the same or similar initial consonant sounds in words closes together.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

How much would could a wood chuck chuck if he could chuck wood.

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What is alliteration? 🤔 | Alliteration in English | Learn with examples

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A word or phrase that is over used and has become lifeless.
Pretty as a picture.
Sweet as pie.
Love is blind.

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What Is A Cliché? | Easy Exemplary English

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An expression that cannot be interpreted literally.

Example:
It's raining cats and dogs.
I lost my head.

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Idioms for Kids | Figurative Language Lesson

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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.

Puns involving animals are amooesing.
The sign on the lawn at the drug facility said: stay off the grass.

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

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the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

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

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Connotation- an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Denotation- the objective meaning of a word.

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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 writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience.

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the atmosphere of the narrative and is created by means of setting, attitude, and descriptions.

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When writing a work of fiction, an author can take the reader out of the present story and jump into an earlier time period in a character's life.

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is 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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is the repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.

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OSU School of Writing, Literature and Film

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"What Is Parallelism?": Oregon State Guide to Grammar

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point of view, in literature, the vantage point from which a story is presented.

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Second-person narration is 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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In third-person objective narration, the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters.

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Third person limited point of view, on the other hand, 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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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

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A person says one thing and means the other. (Sarcasm)

- Your teacher: "I just love when students don't do their homework!"

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When a situation turns it to be the opposite of what you thought it would be.

- A fire station that burns down

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When the reader knows what is going on to happen before a character does.

- In Snow White, the audience knows the apple is poisoned, but Snow White does not.

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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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What does RHETORIC mean? What is the meaning of rhetoric? English word definition.

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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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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.

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Characterization is a name for the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers.

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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 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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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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round characters, characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature.

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problems are called conflict. More precisely, conflict means 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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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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Internal conflict is a psychological conflict that is internal to a character. Mental struggle arising from competing feelings, desires, impulses, etc.

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A literary theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work. The theme of a story can be conveyed using characters, setting, dialogue, plot, or a combination of all of these elements.

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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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A protagonist and antagonist are opposites – antonyms. The protagonists are generally the good guys (even it means that sometimes they are antiheroes) while antagonists are generally the bad guys.