A struggle between opposing forces.
What is literary conflict?
The first part of plot.
An explanation of setting, characters, and other information.
What is exposition?
a story written using one's imagination.
The one telling the story.
What is a narrator?
a conflict that involves a person struggling against another person or other people
What is person vs. others?
(or person vs. person, or character vs. character)
The second part of plot where tension is building up.
What is rising action?
the sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
how an author develops characters in a story.
What is characterization?
a conflict that involves a person struggling against a forest, animals, weather, and the wilderness (natural forces)
What is person vs. nature?
The turning point of a story, where tension is at the highest level and something changes the course of the story.
What is the climax of a story?
The time, place, and context in which a story occurs.
Telling what a character is like using describing words.
What is Direct Characterization?
the conflict that involves a character against an organization, government, laws, or beliefs.
What is person vs society?
The fourth part of plot, things are settling down after the drama in the climax.
What is Falling Action?
A hint at something to come later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
Showing what a character is like using their words, actions, thoughts, effects on others, etc.
a conflict where a character has a struggle within, like a secret, decision, or emotion.
What is person vs. self?
The final stage of plot. How the story ends, and many times conflict and other information is settled.
What is Resolution?
What the characters' lives are like: how they live, what they believe, etc.
What do we mean by the "context" of a story?
What is dialogue?