The Story Diagram __/\__
A plot point or event that hooks the reader into the story.
What is the inciting incident?
A person in a novel, play, or movie.
What is a character?
The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as.
What is metaphor?
A type of feeling that readers get from a narrative, based on details like setting, background, objects, and foreshadowing.
What is atmosphere?
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout literary works.
What is motif?
The resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction.
What is denouement?
Two or more characters engaged in a conversation with one another.
What is dialogue?
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
What is a narrative?
A characters sudden insight or realization that changes his or her understanding.
What is an epiphany?
A genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.
What is mystery?
A particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point
What is climax?
A character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem.
What is a narrator?
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
A forecast or prophecy.
What is prediction?
The ethical appeal.
What is ethos?
Part of a story's plot line in which the problem of the story is worked out
What is resolution?
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
The intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events.
What is suspense?
The emotional appeal.
What is pathos?
The beginning of the story
What is exposition?
An environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place.
What is the setting?
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work.
What is theme?
What is tone?
The logical appeal.
What is logos?