Plot Point of View Atmosphere

Setting Foreshadowing Characters

Flashback Conflict Theme

Irony Motivation Suspense

Symbol Allusion

(Once upon a time…)

Exposition: sets up the story by telling background, setting, & characters

Rising Action: main part of the story where problems arise

Climax: point of greatest intensity; the turning point

Plot: The sequence of events that take place in a story.

Falling Action: contains dialogue & action leading to a satisfying ending

Resolution: satisfying ending telling how problems are resolved

…and they lived happily ever after.

Plot Line

Exposition

Climax

Resolution

Time

&

Place

(It was a dark and scary night….)

Authors present believable characters by:

•character’s actions & words

•character’s appearance

•character’s inner thoughts

•character’s background

•what other characters think & say about the character

•author commenting directly about a character

Characters who change little, if at all.

Characters who change significantly over the course of a story.

The central or main character in a story. (The Good Guy)

Works against the protagonist. (The Bad Guy)

The reason a character

behaves

in a certain way

The struggle that takes place between two opposing forces.

EXTERNAL: (outside)

person against person

person against nature

person against society

person against

unknown

INTERNAL: (with in)

person against himself

Who is telling the story?

1st person: a character speaks directly to the reader & refers to him/herself as “I”

3rd person: a narrator who is not a character & refers to all characters as “he” or “she”

What will happen next?

The author’s ability to make the reader uncertain or tense about

what is to happen next.

I can’t stand the suspense!

How does this writing make me feel?

The mood or feeling

that runs through a

work of literature.

Writers create

atmosphere usually

through their choice of

details & description

The use of clues or hints by the author to prepare the reader for

future developments in a story

Foreshadowing helps us make predictions…and then we want to read on to see if our predictions come true!

An interruption of the action in a story to tell about

something that happened

earlier in time. FLASH BACK

Any person, place, or thing which has meaning in itself but which is made to represent, or stand

for something else as well.

The main idea in a work of literature

Why did the author write this book?

What is the author trying to tell us? What is his

message?

A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or event from literature, the arts,

history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science.

For Example: The “I Have A Dream” speech

alludes to the song “My Country, `Tis of Thee”

A contrast between

what is stated and

what is really meant,

or between what is

expected to happen

and what actually

does happen.