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Plot Stages
Terms Starting With The Letter S
Genres
Characters
Figurative Language
100
The stage that introduces the setting and the characters, reveals conflict or sets the stage for it.
What is Exposition?
100
The time and place in which the action occurs. In some stories, this can take center stage by affecting the characters or creating conflicts for them to endure.
What is Setting?
100
A category in which a work of literature is classified.
What is the definition of genre?
100
The main character in a story, play, or novel.
What is Protagonist?
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as.
What is Simile?
200
The stage that reveals the outcome of the story’s climax, eases the tension, and shows how the main character resolves the conflict.
What is Falling Action?
200
An additional, or secondary order of events in a story? This can contain its own conflict, which is often separate from the main conflicts in the story.
What is Subplot?
200
A prose of writing that tells an imaginary story. The writer of this work might invent all the events and characters or might base parts of the story on real people and events. The basic elements of this are plot, character, setting, and theme. This genre includes both short stories and novels.
What is Fiction?
200
The force working against the protagonist, or main character, in a story, play, or novel.
What is Antagonist?
200
A comparison of two things that are basically unlike but have some qualities in common.
What is Metaphor?
300
The stage that introduces obstacles that makes the conflict more complicated. This stage builds suspense “as the plot thickens”
What is Rising Action?
300
The term in which characters are defined by a single trait. Such characters do not usually demonstrate the complexities of real people.
What is Stereotype?
300
The writing that tells about real people, places, and events. This is mainly written to convey factual information. This genre includes: newspaper articles, letters, essays, biographies, movie reviews, speeches, true-life adventure stories, advertising, and more.
What is Nonfiction?
300
Less important characters in a literary work are known as this.
What is Minor Characters?
300
Language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words. If you incorporate this term, the words are often used to symbolize ideas and concepts they would not otherwise be associated with.
What is Figurative Language?
400
The stage that reveals the story’s final outcome, and ties up any loose ends.
What is Resolution?
400
A term that uses a person, a place, an object, or an activity to stand for something beyond itself, an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is Symbolism?
400
A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.
What is Poetry?
400
A character who udergoes important changes as a plot unfolds. The changes occur because of the character's actions and experiences in the story. Main characters are usually, thought not always, this kind of character.
What is Dynamic Character?
400
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
What is Personification?
500
The stage that is the turning point in the story. This is the moment of greatest suspense, and presents the conflict at its most intense and dramatic moment.
What is Climax?
500
The arrangement in which things follow in a logical order or a recurrent pattern; a following of one thing after another in time.
What is Sequencing?
500
A form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience. The characters' dialogue and actions tell the story.
What is Drama?
500
A character who remains the same throughout a story. The character may experience events and have interactions with other characters, but he or she is not changed because of them.
What is Static Character?
500
The term in which there is exaggeration or overstatement; the statement is usually exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
What is Hyperbole?