Conflict
This is the type of conflict where a character has an inner struggle or is their own adversary.
Person vs. Self
This part of a story captures the audience’s attention, introduces the main characters, setting, and the central conflict.
Beginning/Exposition
The leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc..
Protagonist
The emotion or feeling that readers get from reading a story.
Mood
The most common point of view in writing, when the narrator is someone (or some entity) who is not a character in the story being told. Utilizes the pronouns "he," "she," and "they," to refer to characters.
Third Person Point of View
This is the type of conflict where a character has a problem with a group of people or establishment.
Person vs. Society
This part of the story tells us what happens to the characters after the conflict is resolved.
Resolution/Denouement
Characters that often exist to reveal more about the major characters of a story and help them move the plot forward.
Minor/Secondary Characters
The writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
Tone
This type of perspective uses the pronoun "you" to immerse the reader in the story, placing them in the role of the protagonist.
Second Person Point of View
Dorothy, in The Wizard of Oz, faces this type of conflict when she is trying to survive the tornado.
Person vs. Nature
This part of the story occurs immediately after the climax and details the consequences, good or bad, that the characters must deal with after the turning point of the story.
Falling action
Characters who are complex, layered, and multidimensional. They feel like real people.
Round Characters
A description, either true or imagined, of a connected series of events.
A story
When the narrator is telling the story from their own point of view, as a person in the story. This type of narration usually utilizes the pronoun I, or we, if the narrator is speaking as part of a group.
First Person Point of View
What type of conflict is it in The Three Little Pigs when the big bad wolf wrecks the pig's houses and tries to eat them?
Person vs. Person
In this part of the story everything becomes complicated. The main character is in crisis and there are multiple moments of conflict that escalate and create tension.
Rising action
Characters that do not change throughout the story. They are the same at the start the novel as they are at the end.
Static Characters
A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature
Theme
A type of narrator who is "all-knowing." They know all the thoughts and feelings of every character and can dip in and out of the the internal life of anyone, as needed.
Omniscient narrator
When Mulan disregards ancient Chinese tradition and joins the army in her father's place she is defying the belief that only men can fight for their country. Even after she is found out she continues to fight against these expectations. What type of conflict does she display by doing all of this?
Person vs. Society
An event in a story that throws the main character into conflict. It is a challenging situation that upsets the status quo and begins the story’s movement, either in a positive way or negative.
Inciting incident
When the writer reveals a character’s traits without directly telling the reader what they are.
Indirect characterization
The central struggle that motivates the characters and leads to a work's climax. This gives a story purpose and motivates a story's plot.
Conflict
A narrator whose credibility is compromised. Readers know that they can't fully trust that what this narrator is telling them is true or accurate. Is characteristic of first person perspective narrators.
Unreliable Narrator