Narrative Structure/Plot
the catastrophic suicides of the young lovers Romeo and Juliet who struggled against fate to be with one another.
What is resolution?
What is protagonast
You feel your heart race, and the air around you seems to crystalize
what is secondary pov
He's a couch potatoe
What is a Metaphor
A weatherman saying “It's not like I know about when it's going to rain next.”
What is verbal irony
Little Red sets off for Grandma's house—up to the moment she comes face to face with the Big Bad Wolf.
What is rising action?
Walter White in Breaking Bad to Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz to Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. these are examples of what character?
What is dynamic character
This type of narrator intentionally deceives. These are rare to encounter, but they tell a nuanced story as the reader must try to sort fact from fiction.
What is First person unreliable
He has bigger fish to fry
What is Idiom
“You got a job?”
“Ignatius hasta help me at home,” Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist the lute string with the cord on the cake boxes. “I got terrible arthuritis.”
having your protagonist deal with the consequences of their actions.
what is falling action?
Harry Potter is what kind of character in Harry Potter
what are round charcters
As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end
what is Third Person Omniscient
Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet.
What is alliteration
A woman is about to get married. As she puts on her veil, she remembers her fiancé three years before, swearing he would make her his wife someday. A tear comes to her eye and she prepares to walk down the aisle.
What is FlashBack
Lost, Undone, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, The Witcher, Arrow,
What is nonlinear
a fictional character that serves to expose something intrinsic in another character. Oftentimes, the thing that is exposed is a character folly, like cowardice or greed.
what is character foil
I had just begun to accept the fact that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into two halves: Before and After.
what is first person reliable
His tender heir might bear his memory
What is Assonance
Posting on Facebook about how useless Facebook is.
What is Situational
Romeo killing tybalt
What is Climax
The helpful barista, the grumpy librarian, the guard who delivers a message
what is a tertiary character
There was something in Peter's eyes, when he was in his mad mood, and whenever Ender saw that look, that glint, he knew that the one thing Peter would not do was leave him alone.
What is Third Person Limited
Sight: “The sun was a fiery orb, casting a warm golden glow on the fields.”
Sound: “The symphony of birdsong filled the air, a melodic harmony of tweets and trills.
”Touch: “The cool marble floor numbed her feet and sent shivers up her spine as she walked.”
What is sensory details
(Little Red Riding Hood) the mother is concerned for her daughter's safety. Her concern foreshadows the appearance of the big bad wolf.
What is foreshadowing