Plot Elements
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
When a fictional character breaks away from the events of the story to talk to themselves or directly to the audience.
What is an aside?
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
What is irony?
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry.
What is meter?
A literary device that compares two things in an interesting and vivid way. Uses like or as.
What is a simile?
The introduction to a story, including the primary characters' names, setting, mood, and time.
What is exposition?
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
What is a monologue?
The repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect.
What is alliteration?
What is a limerick?
A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.
What is a metaphor?
The highest point of tension in a storyline, often depicted by a confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist.
What is climax?
The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
What is a line?
A clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting.
What is a Red Herring?
The use of the same word or phrase multiple times
What is repetition?
or What is anaphora?
A literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
The action that occurs immediately after the big climax has taken place and the action shifts towards resolution instead of escalation.
What is falling action?
A part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax, and resolution.
What is an act?
Regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.
What is an allusion?
The repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.
What is assonance?
A literary device that uses the letter sounds of a word to imitate the natural sound emitted from an object or action. beep beep!
What is onomatopoeia?
It is when you learn what happens to the characters after the CONFLICT is resolved.
What is resolution?
A short dramatic part of a story, at a specific time and place, between specific characters.
What is a scene?
The expression of truths or generalizations about human existence by means of symbolic fictional figures and their actions.
What is an allegory?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. The main building block of a poem.
What is stanza?
A literary device that plays with the sounds and meanings of words.
What is a pun?