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The sequence of events in a literary work.
Plot
A speaker or character who tells the story.
Narrator
A difference between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
Irony
Struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work.
Mood
Clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
Foreshadowing
Person/animal/imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a literary work.
Character
Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant.
Verbal Irony
A central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.
Theme
Conversations between characters that may reveal traits and/or advance the action.
Dialogue
A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.
Suspense
The main character/most important character in a story.
Protagonist
Contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows.
Dramatic Irony
Anything that stands for something else.
Symbol
The act of creating and developing a character.
Characterization
When an author presents material that occurred earlier than the present tense of the narrative.
Flashback
The character who opposes the main character.
Antagonist
When an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectation of the character, reader, or audience.
Situational Irony
When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Struggle that sets the main character against someone/something beyond their control.
External Conflict
A type of character, detail, image, or situation that appears in literature throughout history.
Archetype
A character who provides a contrast to another character.
Foil
Events that happen from the time the conflict is known up until the climax.
Rising Action
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Allusion
Events that happen between the climax and resolution of a literary work.
Falling Action