Plot Types 1
Plot Types 2
Plot Structures
Poetic Devices 1
Poetic Devices 2
100

When characters are on a journey 

Quest

100

When the fate of a character abruptly changes.

Reversal 

100

The beginning of the story, where characters and the setting are introduced.

Exposition 

100

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Example: “I have a dream.”

Anaphora

100

The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

Parallelism 

200

When a section of the story ends with important information withheld.

Cliffhanger

200

A moral crisis.

Angel on the Shoulder 

200

When the tension builds, before it reaches the peak of the story.

Rising Action 

200

The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. Example: “Last week, he was just fine. Yesterday, he was just fine. And today, he was just fine.”

Epistrophe

200

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Personification 

300

When important events in the story are hinted at before they occur.

Foreshadowing 

300

 When the character has a time-limit. 

Race Against Time 

300

The peak of the story, when all that has accumulated explodes.

Climax

300

 A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. Example: “Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?)

Refrain 

300

An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.

Allusion 

400

An object that causes the story, but that has no importance itself.

McGuffin

400

A surprise ending that can be predicted.

Plot Twist

400

The consequence of the climax, when the conflict is winding down.

Falling Action

400

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is repeated with a small number of intervening words. Example: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Diacope

400

What is described.

Tenor

500

An object that causes the story, and that has importance itself.

Magnetic Plot-device

500

When a story begins in the middle.

In medias-res 

500

 The end of the story, when the conflict is resolved. 

Resolution 

500

The way a writer embellishes a sentence in order to emphasize or exaggerate certain points.

Amplification 

500

 How it is described. 

Vehicle

M
e
n
u