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Sequence of events
plot
100
Rising action, aka...
complications
100
The story's basic situation, aka...
exposition
100
The problem, aka...
the conflict
100
Moment of great emotional intensity or suspense
climax
200
Falling action. aka...
consequences
200
Root that means "to fold"
plic
200
French word for "to unravel"
denouement
200
Outcome of the conflict
resolution
200
Vantage point from which writer tells a story
point of view
300
Main character is fiction or drama
protagonist
300
Often but not always the villain in the story
antagonist
300
The voice telling a story
narrator
300
Kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
personification
300
"All knowing" point of view
omniscient
400
The narrator who zooms in on thoughts and feelings of one character
third person limited
400
Statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth
paradox
400
Repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure
parallelism
400
Reference to a statement, a person, a place, from literature, history, religion, mythology, etc.
allusion
400
An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of different ways
ambiguity
500
Placing two or more ideas side by side
juxtaposition
500
The strong contrast of expressions, clauses, sentences, or ideas within a balanced grammatical structure
antithesis
500
A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities - i.e., literal and symbolic
allegory
500
Deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive someone but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say
litotes
500
Contrast between expectation and reality
irony