https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq en-us 2022-08-25 16:49:28 UTC 2025-06-17 17:00:45 UTC hello@padlet.com 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271693837 The story line or order of events in a book, play, or movie.]]> 2022-08-25 16:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271693837 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271698168 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.]]> 2022-08-25 16:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271698168 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271725209 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271725209 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271729787 The most exciting or interesting point in a series of events.]]> 2022-08-25 17:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271729787 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271732409 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271732409 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271735984 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271735984 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271738752 A setting is the time and place in which a story is told.]]> 2022-08-25 17:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271738752 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271741829 The protagonist works toward the central story goals, while the antagonist works against the goals.]]> 2022-08-25 17:35:52 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271741829 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271744865 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271744865 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271746804 When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.]]> 2022-08-25 17:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271746804 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271749198 Conflict between the main character and any external force]]> 2022-08-25 17:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271749198 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271753216 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271753216 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271754846 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.]]> 2022-08-25 17:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271754846 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271756561 An external struggle positioning the character against an animal or a force of nature.]]> 2022-08-25 17:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271756561 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271757916 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)]]> 2022-08-25 17:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271757916 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271759621 The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.]]> 2022-08-25 17:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2271759621 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275021421 Choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.]]> 2022-08-29 16:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275021421 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275091877 The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.]]> 2022-08-29 17:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275091877 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275094402 DENOTATION: The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary. CONNOTATION: The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.]]> 2022-08-29 17:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275094402 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275095957 literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.]]> 2022-08-29 17:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275095957 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275098068 literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.]]> 2022-08-29 17:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275098068 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275099992 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.]]> 2022-08-29 17:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275099992 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275102014 A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.]]> 2022-08-29 17:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275102014 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275104049 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.]]> 2022-08-29 17:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2275104049 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278080333  A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.]]> 2022-08-31 17:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278080333 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278082300 The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an "I"]]> 2022-08-31 17:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278082300 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278085260 A little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you.]]> 2022-08-31 17:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278085260 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278089618 The narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters.]]> 2022-08-31 17:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278089618 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278092012 A narrative viewpoint where the story is told from the close perspective of one character.]]> 2022-08-31 17:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278092012 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278096160 The most open and flexible POV available to writers. As the name implies, an omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing.]]> 2022-08-31 17:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278096160 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278101396 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]]> 2022-08-31 17:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278101396 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278104430 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.]]> 2022-08-31 17:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278104430 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278106355 The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.]]> 2022-08-31 17:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278106355 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278107947 Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.]]> 2022-08-31 17:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278107947 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278109840 The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.]]> 2022-08-31 17:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278109840 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278113373 A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction]]> 2022-08-31 17:50:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2278113373 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292733308  mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.]]> 2022-09-12 16:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292733308 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292735640 an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.]]> 2022-09-12 16:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292735640 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292737963 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]]> 2022-09-12 16:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292737963 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292740828 the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.]]> 2022-09-12 16:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292740828 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292743340 a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.]]> 2022-09-12 16:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292743340 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292747146 a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words]]> 2022-09-12 16:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292747146 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292748650 a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.]]> 2022-09-12 16:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2292748650 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299849087 the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.]]> 2022-09-16 11:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299849087 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299851617 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.]]> 2022-09-16 11:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299851617 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299852957 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.]]> 2022-09-16 11:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299852957 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299854167 a literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters.]]> 2022-09-16 11:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2299854167 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300293615 the creation or construction of a fictional character.]]> 2022-09-16 16:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300293615 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300295578 The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells the reader or viewer what the character is like.]]> 2022-09-16 16:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300295578 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300298154 Indirect characterization is a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.]]> 2022-09-16 16:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300298154 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300299935 a type of character who remains largely the same throughout the course of the storyline.]]> 2022-09-16 16:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300299935 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300301129 A dynamic character is one who learns a lesson or changes as a person (either for better or for worse).]]> 2022-09-16 16:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300301129 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300302977 Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.]]> 2022-09-16 16:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300302977 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300304391 Round character definition. In fiction, round characters are lifelike figures with complex, multifaceted personalities.]]> 2022-09-16 16:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300304391 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300309931 the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.]]> 2022-09-16 17:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300309931 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300312759 the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.]]> 2022-09-16 17:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300312759 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300314835 to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.]]> 2022-09-16 17:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300314835 033812 https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300316477 to appeal to the audiences' sense of reason or logic.]]> 2022-09-16 17:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/033812/vtamka7bmvgpqbdq/wish/2300316477