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It is what happens in the story, the main events.

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Plot Mountain! | The Plot Diagram Song | Scratch Garden

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The part of the story that gives background information, tells the setting, the characters and introduces the conflict.

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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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Climax is the decisive moment, or turning point, at which rising action of the play is reversed into falling action.

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The point that falls towards the conclusion.

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The end of the story.

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Where and when the story takes place.

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Protagonist; The one that works towards the central story goals to be a hero.
Antagonist; The "villain" in the story. Try's to work against the goals in the story.

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When there's something in the way between people, which makes them argue, etc.

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Types of Conflict in Literature Notes Video

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Is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs

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

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

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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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Denotation and connotation literary devices, explained with examples.

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The way the author puts his words, so that the audience can have a clue of how the character would sound like.

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The feeling of that moment or character.

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A flashback is 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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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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point of view, in literature, 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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Second-person narration 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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Any story told in the grammatical third person, i.e. without using "I" or "we":

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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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When 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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Comparison using like or as.
He runs as fast as a cheetah.
I moved like lighting when i saw the mouse crawl across the floor.

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comparison or 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.
Extended Metaphor- cause baby you're a firework
come on show them what you're worth
make them go oh, oh oh
as you shoot across the sky

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

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Definition- An over exaggeration  of emotions and over statement.
Example- I have told you a million times to clean your room.

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A symbol is a

Definition -A person place, or event that has meaning by itself and also stand for something 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 gown.

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Combines two opposites or contradictory terms in a brief phrase

Example- Jumbo shrimp, Biter sweet. Deafening Silence

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A mild or indirect word or express used for one consider to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or horrible.

Example-
Euphemism: "We're going to have to let you go"
Really saying: "YOU are FIRED!"
eupemism; friendly fire
really; in the army, they have killed their own people
Euphemism- WWII Naiz- The final solution
really- the total destruction/ murder of all jews

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

Example- he is a real romeo
He slapped like Will.

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

Example- the tie rises, the tied falls,
The Fat Cat Sat On A Mat inside a Hat

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

She sales sea shells by the sea shell shore
How much wood could a woodchuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Rich Robert runs ramped through the shiny streets killing giant mean monsters in his red rocket.

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A word or phrase that is over used and has become lifeless,
pretty as a picture.
sweet as a pie.
love is blind.

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An expression that cannot be interpreted literally.

Example- its raining cats and dogs
I lost my head.

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A play on words based on multiple meaning of a single word or words that sound alike or mean different things.
Puns involving animals are amusing.
the sign on the lawn at the drug rehab facility said- stay off the grass.

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Irony is the opposite of what is expected.

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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When someone says one thing but really means the opposite.

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 irony? Situational, Verbal and Dramatic. Figures of speech by @Essop's E-lessons

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Situational irony is when it turns out to be the opposite of what you thought was expected.
I fire station that burns down.

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

In Beauty and The Beast, the audience knows from the beginning that the beast is a prince but belle does not.

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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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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 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.

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A dynamic character is a character who undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story.

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A flat character is a character with little to no complex emotions, motivations, or personality

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

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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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Focuses attention on the writer's or speaker's trustworthiness.

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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.