Literary Devices
What is storytelling?
Storytelling is a vivid description of beliefs, ideas, personal experiences and life
What do we learn from the exposition?
Who, where, when, and why today
Which form of storytelling uses movement to tell the story?
Why does an author use literary devices?
To hint at the larger meaning to the work
Which part of the plot diagram is the longest in short stories?
Rising action
Which form of storytelling uses music to tell a story?
Song
What is dramatic irony?
When the audience knows something the character doesn't
How do we know that a story has reached the climax?
The main character is literally or metaphorically closest to life and death
Name three forms of storytelling
books, movies, song, dance, video games, poetry, art, theatre, etc.
What is a vingette?
When the action pauses and the audience is taken to another place or time.
Name all of the parts of the plot diagram in order
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
Which form of storytelling does theatre go into?
Visual storytelling
Name three literary devices
Another word for resolution is
Denoument
Which type of storytelling mixes multiple forms of storytelling together to create something?
Theatre, movies, tv.