Characters
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone; typically towards the main character.
Antagonist
What is the golden rule of literature?
Show don't tell
The time and place where your story happens.
Setting
When a character speaks, grunts, or otherwise vocalizes their thoughts.
Dialogue
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Protagonist
The part of a book or play that contains the description of nouns and verbs.
(characters, settings, objects, and actions)
Narrative
A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
Genre
What is the additional information used to inform the reader as to who is speaking?
Dialogue Tag
When a character changes over time; typically for the better.
Character Development
(Character Growth)
The part of the pre-write where the author constructs the environment in which the characters live and the story takes place.
World Building
The underlying message or central idea of a story.
Theme
What kind of punctuation do you use to signify the spoken words of characters?
"Quotation marks"
A character with little to no complex emotions, personal goals, or personality; that don't undergo any kind of change or growth.
Static
(Flat)
The process of going over a previous draft in an attempt to improve on it; polishing it.
Revision
The overall feeling or mood of the story.
Tone
What is the default punctuation used to separate what the characters says from who is saying it?
Comma ,
A character with complex emotions, personal goals, and a strong personality, who struggles with internal conflict and undergoes significant internal change throughout the course of a story.
Dynamic
(Well-rounded)
The point of view used to tell the story; usually either through the eyes of a character or through an omniscient point of view as the reader watches evens unfold.
Perspective
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Plot
When you list who is talking in the middle of two segments of the same character talking, what punctuation do you use?
A comma before and after listing who said it.
Background characters; used to fill in the space/world.
Tertiary characters
An author/speaker's word choice
Diction
The driving force of a narrative, creating tension and interest by presenting obstacles for the characters to overcome.
Conflict
How do you visually signify a change in who is talking?
Start a new paragraph
(new line + Indent .5 inches)