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| Time and place of a story. |
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| A thing that represents or stands for something other than what it is. |
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| Atmosphere or feeling of a story. |
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Prespective from which the story is told.
1st Person- I
3rd Person Limited- Narrator gives little of their opinion.
3rd Person Omniscient- Don't know anything about narrator. |
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| Sequence of events in a story that follow a logical order. |
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Struggle between two opposing forces.
External: Man vs. Man, group, nature, supernatural.
Internal: Man vs. Self |
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| Conclusions that cn be drawn from events or characters in a story. |
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| Person who tells the story. |
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| Person whom the audience cannot trust. |
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| Process by which characters are developed. |
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| Not important to the plot (story would be the same w/o them). |
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| Does not change throughout the story. |
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| Develops or changes throughout the story. |
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| Conversation in the story. |
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| A special form of speech that belongs to a specific group, region, or area. |
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| Giving non-human thing humanlike characteristics. Example "Tree limbs waved like a hand" |
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| A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show an event from the past. |
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| A feeling, goal, or idea that causes a character to act a certain way. |
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| Author's hints about what will happen in a story. |
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| Type or category of literature. |
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| Contrasting opposing character. |
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| Character who changes throughout the story. |
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| Character who does NOT change throughout the story. |
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| Contrast between reality and what seems to be real. |
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| When a person says one thing but means another. |
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| Outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected. |
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| When the audience has important information that characters in a literary work do not have. |
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| 1. Setting (time/place) mood, point-of-view, background imformation. |
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| 2. The first main event that puts the story into motion. |
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| 3. The points leading up to the climax, suspense builds. |
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| 4. The highest point of interest in a story. |
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| 5. The events following the climax (questions answered) |
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| 6. AKA the resolution, concluding parts of a story (all loose ends tied up and the conflict is resolved). |
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