Plot Elements
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
What is the protagonist?
When a fictional character breaks away from the events of the story to talk to themselves or directly to the audience.
What is aside?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
It refers to a single line, a stanza, or the entire poem itself.
What is a verse?
A distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering.
What is a paragraph?
The action that occurs immediately after the big climax has taken place and the action shifts towards resolution instead of escalation.
What is Falling Action
What is stage direction?
The expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic fictional figures and their actions. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Not a fable.
What is allegory?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is a rhyme scheme?
The main division of a book, typically with a number or title
What is a chapter?
What is the antagonist?
A group of people who have important roles in a book, story, or event.
What is a cast of characters?
The use of words or images to represent specific concepts, people, objects, or events.
What is symbolism?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is a stanza?
A short story, typically with animals as characters, that conveys a moral.
What is a fable?
The conclusion of a story's plot.
What is the resolution?
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
What is a monologue?
A recurring fragment, theme, or pattern that appears in a work of art.
What is a motif?
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry.
What is meter?
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
What is dialogue?
It's basically when a character wants something but something else gets in the way. Maybe the character wants a thing but can't get it.
What is conflict?
The place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.
What is a scene?
Regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
What is an allusion?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
A set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate.
What is a sentence?