Plot Line
the portion that gives the background or situation surrounding the story
What is exposition?
One character in a story has a problem with one or more of the other characters
What is person vs. person?
A comparison of two similar objects
What is an analogy?
This is an author's account of their own life...
What is an autobiography?
is the method the author uses to reveal characters and their personalities
What is characterization?
the series of struggles that leads to the climax
What is the rising action?
A character has a problem with some elements of society: the school, the law, the accepted way of doing things
What is person vs. society?
is the story of a person's life written by another person
What is a biography?
refers to the category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content.
What is genre?
the most intense part of the story
What is the climax?
A character has a problem deciding what to do in a certain situation
What is person vs. self?
is a piece of prose that expresses an individual's point of view. There's two examples of the letter S, and only one of the letter A.
What is an essay?
The value or lesson learned from a story, often in a fairy tale or stories for children, often with fanciful characters.
What is a moral?
works out the decision arrived at during the climax
What is the falling action?
A character has a problem with nature: heat, cold, a tornado, an avalanche, or any other element of nature.
What is person vs. nature?
an exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Poe was a master of the form.
What is poetry?
is the vantage point from which the story is told
What is the point of view?
the problem is solved
What is the resolution?
A character must battle with what seems to an uncontrollable problem.
What is person vs. fate?
The type of language that is used to create a special effect of feeling
What is figurative language?
This type of writing presents your skills, knowledge, and experiences-to a prospective employer.
If you begin writing one, you can always resume working on it the next day...
What is a resume?
Similar to a moral, this is the statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing.
What is the theme?