https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59 en-us 2022-08-15 14:02:18 UTC 2026-01-06 14:40:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261256203 A plot is the sequence of events that make up a story.]]> 2022-08-15 14:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261256203 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261258120 Exposition is a literary device that is meant to relay background information about the main character, setting, event,or other elements of the narrative]]> 2022-08-15 14:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261258120 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261258883 Rising Action is a series of incidents in a literary plot that builds toward the point of greatest interest.]]> 2022-08-15 14:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261258883 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261259500 Climax is the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.]]> 2022-08-15 14:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261259500 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261260246 Falling action refers to the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. ]]> 2022-08-15 14:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261260246 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261260788 Resolution is the end/ending of the story.]]> 2022-08-15 14:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261260788 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261261282 Setting is the time and place in which a story is told.]]> 2022-08-15 14:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261261282 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261262652 Protagonist and Antagonist are nouns that prefer to a character in the story, Protagonist being good and Antagonist being bad.]]> 2022-08-15 14:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261262652 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261264505 Conflict means thwarted, endangered, or opposing desire. Basically means problems occur.]]> 2022-08-15 14:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261264505 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261265004 Internal conflict is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.]]> 2022-08-15 14:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261265004 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261266828
External conflict sets a character against something or someone beyond their control. 
EX: -Man vs. Man
      -Man vs. Society
      -Man vs. Nature
      -Man vs. Technology

]]> 2022-08-15 14:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261266828 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261267487 Theme is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.]]> 2022-08-15 14:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2261267487 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263329526 Diction is the choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.]]> 2022-08-17 14:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263329526 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263330620  Syntax refers to the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence. ]]> 2022-08-17 14:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263330620 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263331952 DENOTATION: The direct definition of the word that you find in the dictionary. CONNOTATION: The emotional suggestions of a word, that is not literal.]]> 2022-08-17 14:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263331952 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263334287 Tone expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. ]]> 2022-08-17 14:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263334287 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263335651 Mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.]]> 2022-08-17 14:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263335651 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263336796  Flashback is a scene that takes place before a story begins. ]]> 2022-08-17 14:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263336796 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263338375 Foreshadowing is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.]]> 2022-08-17 14:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263338375 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263340072 2022-08-17 14:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2263340072 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277781310 POV is the vantage point from which a story is presented. ]]> 2022-08-31 14:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277781310 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277783230 First Person  the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. ]]> 2022-08-31 14:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277783230 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277785709 Second person 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 14:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277785709 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277787083 Third person objective is the narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters. ]]> 2022-08-31 14:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277787083 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277789251 Third person limited a narrative viewpoint where the story is told from the close perspective of one character.]]> 2022-08-31 14:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277789251 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277794088 Third person omniscient the most open and flexible POV available to writers.]]> 2022-08-31 14:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277794088 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277797230 Simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”]]> 2022-08-31 14:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277797230 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277803828 Metaphor and extended metaphor 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 14:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277803828 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277805789 Personification attribution of personal qualities especially : representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form.]]> 2022-08-31 14:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277805789 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277808100 Hyperbole is a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect.

]]> 2022-08-31 14:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277808100 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277809454 Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things. ]]> 2022-08-31 14:23:17 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277809454 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277810971 Oxymoron is a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions.]]> 2022-08-31 14:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2277810971 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299112937 A euphemism is an appropriate expression used in the place of a phrase or words that may be found inappropriate or offensive.]]> 2022-09-16 00:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299112937 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299113604 Allusions are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.]]> 2022-09-16 00:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299113604 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299114108 Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants. However, assonance between consonants is generally called consonance in American usage. ]]> 2022-09-16 00:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299114108 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299114843 Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.]]> 2022-09-16 00:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299114843 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299115842 A cliche is a scenario or expression that is used excessively, to the point that it is considered unoriginal.]]> 2022-09-16 00:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299115842 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299116581 An idiom is a widely used saying or expression that contains a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning. ]]> 2022-09-16 00:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299116581 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299117261 A pun is a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.]]> 2022-09-16 00:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299117261 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299991342 Irony whenever a person says something or does something that departs from what they (or we) expect them to say or do.]]> 2022-09-16 13:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299991342 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299992651 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 13:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299992651 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299994085 Situational irony is the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected.]]> 2022-09-16 13:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299994085 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299995867 dramatic irony, 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 13:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299995867 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299997085 Characterization is a name for the methods a writer uses to reveal a character's values, feelings, goals, etc. to readers. ]]> 2022-09-16 13:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299997085 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299998746 Direct characterization is when an author describes a character in a straightforward manner, as if telling the reader directly.

]]> 2022-09-16 13:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299998746 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299999985 Indirect characterization is a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.]]> 2022-09-16 13:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2299999985 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300001527 A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end]]> 2022-09-16 13:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300001527 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300002831 dynamic character means simply a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story.]]> 2022-09-16 13:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300002831 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300004032 Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.]]> 2022-09-16 13:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300004032 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300005387 round characters, characters as described by the course of their development in a work of literature. ]]> 2022-09-16 13:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300005387 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300007664 Rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing effectively.]]> 2022-09-16 13:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300007664 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300009047 ethos, in rhetoric, the character or emotions of a speaker or writer that are expressed in the attempt to persuade an audience. ]]> 2022-09-16 13:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300009047 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300010013 Pathos is an appeal made to an audience's emotions in order to evoke feeling.]]> 2022-09-16 13:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300010013 033584 https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300011225 Logos is a rhetorical or persuasive appeal to the audience's logic and rationality.]]> 2022-09-16 13:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/033584/wjluvgker1fz2a59/wish/2300011225