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| The arrangement of events in a story |
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| 1. Exposition (the introduction- introduces main characters, setting, and the inciting incident- the event that gives rise to the conflict) 2. Rising action (the portion of the story where the plot becomes more complicated and the conflict intensifies) 3. Climax (the point at which the conflict reaches its greatest height- after this the rest of the story is inevitable) 4. Falling action (leads to and culminates with the resolution) 5. Resolution (also known as the denouement, which means "the unknotting") |
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| Time, place, and context (social, political, and economic situation) |
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| A struggle between opposing forces |
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Person versus Person
Person versus Self
Person versus Society
Person versus Nature |
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| The personalities who populate a story |
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| Provides the primary conflict. If the antagonist is evil, (s)he is referred to as the villain. |
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| A statement the text seems to be making about a subject. Basically, it is the meaning, and it may be a moral or a lesson, but it may come from an unmoralized or less obviously moral perspective. |
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| Author's, or speaker's, word choice |
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| An implied comparison between unlike things. There is no word to tell the reader a comparison is made. It is up to the reader to identify the figurative nature of the language. |
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| A comparison between unlike things that uses signal words to make the comparison explicit. Some examples of these words are like, as, seems, and resembles. |
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| A gross exaggeration. Overstatement used to make a point. |
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| Giving human characteristics to non-human things |
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| (1) Tells the tale of an individual's transformation from childhood to maturity, and (2) shows the physiological or spiritual development a character goes through to understand his/her place in the world. |
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| Breaking something into smaller pieces to better understand the whole |
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| The attitude of authors toward their subjects, their readers, and/or themselves |
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| The feeling(s) created in the reader by the work |
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| Something that, although it is of interest in its own right, stands for or suggests something larger and more complex |
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| A recurrent thematic element |
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| A written work meant to be performed theatrically |
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| When an individual adopts some or all aspects of a dominant culture (such as its religion, language, norms, values, etc.) |
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| An indirect, or brief, reference to a person, event, statement, or theme found in literature, the other arts, history, mythology, religion, or popular culture) |
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