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Literary Elements
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- 1PlotPlot is the series of related events that make up the story
- 2Introduction (Exposition)The introduction, or exposition, establishes the setting and introduces the main character or characters in the story.
- 3Initial IncidentAn initial incident presents a conflict, which tells what problem the main character or characters are facing.
- 4Rising ActionThe rising action is a series of events that builds from the conflict. Complications arise as the characters struggle with different possible solutions to the conflict. The rising action begins with the initial incident and ends with the climax.
- 5ClimaxThe climax is the high point of the story for the reader. Frequently, it is the moment of the highest interest and greatest emotion. In the climax, the main character or characters come face to face with the conflict, or make a final decision that will settle the conflict.
- 6Falling ActionThe events after the climax, which begin to resolve the complications.
- 7ResolutionThe story ends with the resolution: the writer suggests what the characters feel or do, now that the conflict is over. The resolution concludes the action. Conflict resolutions may include: happy, unhappy, indeterminate or surprise endings.
- 8DenouementA final revelation given to the reader, usually to explain what happens in the future. (Not all stories have a denouement.)
- 9SettingThe setting is the time and place in which story events happen. Setting can be as dynamic and lively in its own way as the characters are in a story. Setting includes time, place, climate, weather, and social conditions or lifestyle.
- 10MoodThe mood, or atmosphere, is the general feeling in a story (fun, suspenseful, frightening, amusing, threatening). It refers to the emotion or emotions a writer makes a reader feel.
- 11ConflictConflict is the core of fiction. It creates plot.
- 12External ConflictConflict between a character and some outside person or force.
- 13Internal ConflictWhen the conflict is internal the character may be wrestling with him- or herself.
- 14Character versus SelfInternal conflict. The character struggles with himself/herself; with his/her own soul, ideas of right or wrong, physical limitations, choices, etc.
- 15Character versus CharacterConflict that pits one person or group against another person or group.
- 16Character versus NatureA run-in with the forces of nature (e.g. storm, animals, raging river, etc.).
- 17Character versus SocietyThe character faces a large element in society, such as government or technology which they have no control over. The character’s values are being challenged, or the character is challenging the values of others in society.
- 18Character versus SupernaturalThe character struggles against supernatural forces, such as aliens, ghosts, spirits etc.
- 19CharacterA character is a person or other figure in a story. Good characters are motivated (convincing), plausible (life-like) and consistent (in behaviour).
- 20Major CharactersMajor characters are almost always round, or three-dimensional characters.
- 21Minor CharactersAlmost always flat, or two-dimensional characters. They have only one or two striking qualities.
- 22ProtagonistThe main character in the story, who faces some conflict or challenge.
- 23AntagonistThe character or force that opposes the protagonist.
- 24Flat characterMay be characterized by one or two traits and summed up in one sentence.
- 25Round characterComplex and many sided, as people in real life are.
- 26Stock characterA special kind of flat character; a stereotyped figure whose nature is immediately known.
- 27Realistic characterA character whose motivations and whose actions, speech and other mannerisms closely resemble that of real people.
- 28Static characterThe same sort of person at the end of the story as he/she was at the beginning
- 29Dynamic characterUndergoes permanent change (growth) in character, personality or outlook during the course of the story.
- 30Direct characterizationWhen the author comes right out and tells the reader what the character looks like, says, does, thinks, and feels.
- 31Indirect characterizationWhen the reader learns about a character by how he or she interacts with others and by what others say about him or her.
- 32DialogueThe conversations characters have with one another.
- 33Purposes of DialogueDialogue can be used to: draw a reader into the story; reveal character; move the plot or action along; and create conflict.
- 34Character DevelopmentCharacter can be revealed though physical description, words, actions, thoughts and what other characters say or think about them.
- 35ThemeThe big idea or main message that a story conveys about life.
- 36Point of ViewThe standpoint or angle from which a story is told
- 37First PersonThe story is told through the eyes and voice of one character.
- 38Third-Person LimitedThe story is told through the voice of one character.
- 39Third-Person OmniscientThe narrator is all-knowing and can “enter” into the minds of all characters.
- 40Third-Person Objective (camera view)The story is told in the third person, but the reader is not told what any characters are thinking or feeling.
- 41ForeshadowingThe use of hints or clues to imply what will take place further on in the story
- 42FlashbackAn interruption in the story and occurs when the author tells about an event that happened before the time of the story.
- 43SuspenseThe suspense is created by questions raised or by the unknown (e.g. Being lost in the woods). Suspense creates real emotion in the reader.
- 44SymbolismSymbolism is using one thing to represent another.
- 45IronyIrony involves a contradiction between appearance and reality.
- 46Verbal IronyWhen a character/author says one thing, but suggests or intends the opposite. Sarcasm, hyperbole, understatement are forms of verbal irony.
- 47Situational Irony
- 48Dramatic Irony
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