Plot, Setting, and Character
The sequence of interconnected events within the story of a play, novel, film, epic, or other narrative literary work
What is plot?
The specific word choice of an author
What is diction?
The conversation between two or more characters in a play, book, movie, tv show, or other literary work
What is dialogue?
Comparing two things using “like” or “as”
What is simile?
A short statement that expresses the main idea of an essay, research paper, etc.
What is a thesis statement?
The time and place where a story takes place
What is setting?
A method of storytelling in which a narrator tells the story from their point of view, using words such as "I" or "we"
What is first person narration?
A remark or passage in a play that is intended for the audience to hear but is unheard by other characters in the play
What is an aside?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
What is personification?
Clear and specific facts and data that backs up a writer's argument
What is evidence?
The beginning of a story where the characters, setting and initial conflict are introduced
What is exposition?
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning; the emotions or associations that surround a word.
What is connotation?
When the audience knows something that a character does not
What is dramatic irony?
A brief or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
What is an allusion?
Words or phrases that move the writing smoothly from one thought to the next
What are transitions?
The main character of a story
Who is a protagonist?
A narrator who knows what is happening at all points of the story at all times and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.
What is an omniscient narrator?
a speech in a play in which the character speaks out loud to themselves in order to let the audience know their thoughts
What is a soliloquy?
a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
A list of citations to books, articles, documents =, electronic sources, etc. followed by brief, descriptive & evaluative paragraph for each resource
What is an annotated bibliography?
The method of characterization where the author reveals the character’s traits through their thoughts and actions
What is indirect characterization?
The attitude of an author
What is tone?
A type of meter in poetry that has five lines and 10 syllables; it the meter that Shakespeare wrote a majority of his plays in
What is iambic pentameter?
a scene that interrupts the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character's life
What is a flashback?
A word or words that introduce information from someone else. A signal phrase or a lead-in phrase comes before a quotation, paraphrase, or summary, and it includes citation information, like the author's name, title of the source, the year the source was published.
What is a signal phrase?