The triangle structure of the plot; the events/action of the story.
What is Plot Diagram
100
A character's struggle against an outside opposing force such as another character, society as a whole, or a force of nature.
What is External Conflict?
100
For this, you use clues in the story to decide what kind of person a character is. Clues may be descriptions of how the character acts, speaks and thinks and how other people respond to the character.
What is Indirect Characterization?
100
This takes place within a character’s own mind. It is a struggle between opposing needs, desire, or emotion.
What is Internal Conflict?
100
The writer tells us directly what the characters are like (good, evil, lazy, etc.).
What is Direct Characterizartion
200
This is part one of the plot diagram. It introduces characters and setting or introduction to the literature.
What is the Exposition?
200
This is part four of the plot diagram. It is the gradual winding to the conclusion; focuses on forces opposing the protagonist.
What is Falling Action?
200
This is the last piece of the plot diagram. It is the moment of last suspense when you know the fate of the protagonist.
What is Resolution?
200
The writer’s choice of words
What is Diction?
200
The general idea or insight about human life that a work of literature reveals. It can be stated in one or more sentences.
What is Theme?
300
This is part two of the plot diagram. It introduces conflict which gradually increases.
What is Rising Action?
300
This refers to an event that is contrary to (opposite of) what we expected.
What is Situational Irony?
300
This takes place when the audience knows what is going to happen to a character, but the character does not know.
What is Dramatic Irony?
300
It is an omniscient narrator who focuses on only one character’s actions and feelings.
What is Third Person Limited (point of view)?
300
This is an object, a person, an animal, or an event that stands for something more than itself.
What is Symbol?
400
This is part three of the plot diagram. It is the point of highest interest and/or turning point.
What is Climax
400
This is a guess based on observation and prior experience, or using evidence from the text.
What is Inference?
400
This is the use of clues to hint events that will occur later in the plot. Used to build suspense and sometimes anxiety in the reader or viewer.
What is Foreshadowing?
400
This is figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than.
What is Simile?
400
This is figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles.
What is Metaphor?
500
The language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
What is Imagery?
500
A story told by an “I” narrator. An “I” narrator is a character in the story.
What is First-Person narration (point of view)?
500
The narrator can tell us everything about the characters, including how they think and feel. This narrator is not a character in the story.
What is Third-Person Omniscient (point of view)?
500
This is a word or phrase that creates an imaginative comparison. It is not meant to be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language?
500
The difference between what we expect or what seems suitable and what actually happens. There are three different kinds of this.