Plot Point of View Atmosphere

Setting Foreshadowing Characters

Flashback Conflict Theme

Irony Motivation Suspense

Symbol Allusion

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(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

Ris

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Act

ion

Climax

Falling Action

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

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

Whois 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”

Whatwill 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

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

forfuture 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

The main idea in a work of literature

Why did theauthor writethis book?

What is the author

trying to tell us? What is his

message?

A contrast between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.

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Characters who change significantly over the course of a story.

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

Works against the protagonist. (The Bad Guy)

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

represent, or stand for something else as well.

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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”