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 main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Plot
What is the additional information used to inform the reader as to who is speaking?
Dialogue Tag
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.
Narrative
The time and place where your story happens.
When a character speaks, grunts, or otherwise vocalizes their thoughts.
Dialogue
When a character changes over time; typically for the better.
Character Growth
Character Development
The part of the pre-write where the author constructs the environment in which the characters live and the story takes place.
World Building
A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content
Genre
What kind of punctuation do you use to signify the spoken words of characters?
"Quotation marks"
Secondary characters; friends, love interests, family, etc.
Supporting Characters
(Side characters)
The process of going over a previous draft in an attempt to improve on it; polishing it.
Revision
The underlying message or central idea of a story.
Theme
What punctuation do you typically use to separate what your characters say from who is saying it?
Comma ,
A character with little to no complex emotions, personal goals, or personality; that don't undergo any kind of change or growth.
Flat
Static
Used to describe 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 overall feeling or mood of the story.
Tone
How do you visually signify a change in who is talking?
Start a new paragraph
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
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
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.