The opening of the story, when the characters and their conflicts are introduced.
What is Basic Situation or Exposition
100
When the story jumps ahead days or years into the future.
What is Flash-forward
100
A struggle that drives the plot.
What is Conflict
100
A series of related events, like links in a chain.
What is Plot
100
The key scene in the story- that tense, exciting or terrifying moment when our emotional involvement is greatest.
What is Climax
200
The time and place of a story.
What is Setting
200
Person in a story, poem or play.
What is Character
200
The order in which events unfold in real time.
What is Chronological Order
200
The conversation between characters in a story or play.
What is Dialogue
200
A struggle that takes place between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and something nonhuman.
What is External Conflict
300
When the flow of a story is interrupted to present an episode from the past.
What is Flashback
300
The voice telling a story.
What is Narrator
300
When the main character takes action to resolve the conflict but meets with more problems or complications: danger, hostility, fear, or even a new threatening situation.
What is Complication
300
A type of inference, a guess based on evidence.
What is Prediction
300
A struggle that takes place within a characters mind or heart.
What is Internal Conflict
400
The writer of a literary work.
What is Author
400
The way that people are represented in a film, play, or book so that they seem real and natural; a description of qualities.
What is Characterization
400
When the author brings the future into the present using hints or clues to suggest what is to come in the story.
What is Foreshadowing
400
The final part of the story; when the struggles have ended and the reader learns what is going to happen to the characters.
What is Resolution or Denouement
400
Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
What is Point of View
500
When the author tell the reader directly about the characters in the story.
What is Direct Characterization
500
Uncertainty or anxiety felt by the reader in regards to what is going to happen next in the story.
What is Suspense
500
When characters tells their own stories by speaking directly to the reader.
What is First Person Narrator
500
When the writer gives the reader a secret glimpse into the character's mind by revealing their ideas and feelings.
What are Private Thoughts
500
The writer shows the reader a character, but allows the reader to determine, using personal perceptions, the kind of person/character being introduced.