https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx en-us 2022-08-15 14:02:18 UTC 2025-05-21 19:16:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261256871 A plot is the sequence of events that make up a story]]> 2022-08-15 14:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261256871 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261259015 the first paragraph or paragraphs in which the characters, setting (time and place), and basic information is introduced.]]> 2022-08-15 14:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261259015 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261260498 a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a narrative.]]> 2022-08-15 14:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261260498 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261263106 The highest point of tension or drama in a narratives’ plot.]]> 2022-08-15 14:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261263106 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261267392 The tension stemming from the story's central conflict decreases.]]> 2022-08-15 14:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261267392 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261269278 When conflicts are resolved and the story concludes.]]> 2022-08-15 14:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261269278 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261271801 Setting is the time and place (or when and where) of the story.]]> 2022-08-15 14:29:05 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2261271801 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262675692 The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals.]]> 2022-08-16 22:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262675692 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262677083 The central struggle between characters or competing forces]]> 2022-08-16 22:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262677083 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262682154 When a character struggles with something within themselves.]]> 2022-08-16 22:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262682154 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262687519 A struggle that takes place between the main character and some outside force. For example:
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. technology]]> 2022-08-16 22:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262687519 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262694364 A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.]]> 2022-08-16 23:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262694364 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262696231 The linguistic choices made by a writer to convey an idea or point of view, or tell a story, in an effective way.]]> 2022-08-16 23:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262696231 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262699124 Determines how the chosen words are used to form a sentence.]]> 2022-08-16 23:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262699124 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262700684 A connotation is the feeling a word invokes.
A denotation is what the word literally says.]]> 2022-08-16 23:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262700684 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262703965 Reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience.]]> 2022-08-16 23:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262703965 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262704805 Refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.]]> 2022-08-16 23:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262704805 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262705501 Interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a narrative.]]> 2022-08-16 23:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262705501 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262707781 To indicate or hint to readers something that is to follow or appear later in a story.]]> 2022-08-16 23:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262707781 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262708845 The repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. ]]> 2022-08-16 23:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2262708845 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263328313 What the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective).]]> 2022-08-17 14:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263328313 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263328654 Situation in which two characters have opposing desires or interests.]]> 2022-08-17 14:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263328654 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263329163 Character must take on society itself, and not a single person.]]> 2022-08-17 14:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263329163 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263329414 Character is tormented by natural forces such as storms or animals.]]> 2022-08-17 14:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263329414 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263330059 Results from humans involved in a struggle with manmade machines.]]> 2022-08-17 14:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2263330059 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2277816926 A way of storytelling through the narrator’s point of view.]]> 2022-08-31 14:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2277816926 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280735552 In literature, second person point of view breaks the fourth wall by directly addressing the reader with the pronoun “you.”]]> 2022-09-02 13:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280735552 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280738364 Direct comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as."]]> 2022-09-02 13:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280738364 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280743204 Direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."]]> 2022-09-02 13:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280743204 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280745834 Point of view that uses the pronouns “he,” “she,” “they,” “them,” etc. The narrator does not, unlike the other third person perspectives, have any insight into the characters’ thoughts and feelings.]]> 2022-09-02 13:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280745834 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280748910 The author limits themselves to one character’s perspective at a time, but the narrator knows what that chosen character feels or thinks.]]> 2022-09-02 13:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280748910 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280757288 Comparing a non-human thing with human characteristics.
Ex: "The grass is dancing in the wind"]]> 2022-09-02 13:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280757288 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280760642 Extreme exaggeration

Ex: It's a slow burg-I spent a couple of of weeks there one day.]]> 2022-09-02 14:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280760642 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280765011 Literacy device that uses symbols, weather they be words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas to represent something beyond the literal meaning.]]> 2022-09-02 14:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280765011 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280779934 The narrator knows everything about everybody’s thoughts and feelings.]]> 2022-09-02 14:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280779934 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280785544 a figure of speech that puts together opposite elements. The combination of these contradicting elements serves to reveal a paradox, confuse, or give the reader a laugh.]]> 2022-09-02 14:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280785544 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280789198 a word or expression used considerably instead of a harsher alternative. For example, someone might say they’re “taking an early retirement” instead of admitting they got fired.]]> 2022-09-02 14:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280789198 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792216 an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. Most allusions are based on the assumption that there is a body of knowledge that is shared by the author and the reader and that therefore the reader will understand the author’s referent.]]> 2022-09-02 14:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792216 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792616  The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.]]> 2022-09-02 14:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792616 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792858 A series of words begin with the same consonant sound. It's used to emphasize something important that a writer or speaker would like to express.]]> 2022-09-02 14:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280792858 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793101 Expression that is trite, worn-out, and overused. As a result, clichés have lost their original vitality, freshness, and significance in expressing meaning.]]> 2022-09-02 14:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793101 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793268 Figure of speech that means something different than a literal translation of the words would lead one to believe. For example, "it's raining cats and dogs" is a common idiom in English, but it's not meant to be taken literally.]]> 2022-09-02 14:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793268 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793426 Known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings. Their play on words also relies on a word or phrase having more than one meaning.]]> 2022-09-02 14:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2280793426 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2292460953  Literary device in which contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true. The effectiveness of irony as a literary device depends on the reader’s expectations and understanding of the disparity between what “should” happen and what “actually” happens in a literary work.]]> 2022-09-12 14:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2292460953 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300000425 When a speaker speaks something contradictory to what he intends to say. It is an intentional product of the speaker and is contradictory to his/her emotions and actions. To define it simply, it occurs when a character uses a statement with underlying meanings that contrast with its literal meaning]]> 2022-09-16 13:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300000425 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300004183 Situational irony is a literary technique in which an expected outcome does not happen, or its opposite happens instead.]]> 2022-09-16 13:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300004183 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300008901 Important stylistic device that is commonly found in plays, movies, theaters, and sometimes in poetry. Storytellers use this irony as a useful plot device for creating situations in which the audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts, and their resolutions before the leading characters or actors.]]> 2022-09-16 13:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300008901 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300012682 used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details of a character in a story.]]> 2022-09-16 13:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300012682 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300016872 The way an author or another character within the story describes or reveals a character, through the use of descriptive adjectives, epithets, or phrases.]]> 2022-09-16 13:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300016872 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300020930 The author showing the audience what kind of person a character is through the character’s thoughts, words, and deeds.]]> 2022-09-16 13:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300020930 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300026573 One that does not undergo inner changes, or undergoes a little change. It is a character that does not develop or grow.]]> 2022-09-16 13:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300026573 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300031808 A dynamic character also undergoes changes throughout the narrative, due to conflicts he encounters on his journey. A dynamic character faces trials and tribulations, and takes time to learn from his encounters, his experiences, and his mistakes, as well as from other characters.]]> 2022-09-16 13:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300031808 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300035444 A type of character in fiction that does not change too much from the start of the narrative to its end.]]> 2022-09-16 13:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300035444 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300039304 A complex personality. Like real people, they have depth in feelings and passions.]]> 2022-09-16 13:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300039304 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300043483 The art, practice, and study of human communication.]]> 2022-09-16 13:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300043483 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300046718 ethos represents credibility, or an ethical appeal, which involves persuasion by the character involved.]]> 2022-09-16 14:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300046718 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300050026 Literary device that is designed to inspire emotions from readers. Pathos is Greek for “suffering” or “experience.”]]> 2022-09-16 14:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300050026 033848 https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300053402 Logos is a literary device that can be described as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic.]]> 2022-09-16 14:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033848/fg1pknnja7719urx/wish/2300053402