Plot Setting Character

Suspense

(n.) fear or anticipation of waiting for something. Something having to do with fear or mystery, as in a suspense novel

Flashback

- a section of the story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time; used to give additional information that will help the reader understand the story better

Denouement

A French word meaning "unknotting" or "unwinding," denouement refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot.

Conflict

A struggle between opposing forces. Man vs. Man, Man vs. society, Man vs. himself and Man vs. nature.

Direct Characterization

Author directly describes character

Traits

Characteristics that are inherited in the character's personality

Antagonist

A character or force in conflict with the main character

External Conflict

A character struggles against some outside force: another character, society as a whole, or some natural force

Static Character

A character that does not grow or change throughout the story, that ends as he/she began.

Round Character

A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work

Archetype

A character, situation, or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore.

Epiphany

A moment of profound insight or revelation by which a character's life is greatly altered.

Exposition

A narrative device; The introductory material which gives the setting, creates the tone, presents the characters, and presents other facts necessary to understanding the story.

Narrator

A person who tells a story; in literature, the voice that an author takes on to tell a story.

Rising Action

A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.

Stock Character

A stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar to us from prototypes in previous fiction.

Cause and Effect

Analyzing the causes leading up to, or the effects of, an idea or event.

Plot Structure

Contains the framework of the story tells you about the exposition, rising action, the climax, the falling action, the resolution. It also tells you who the main characters are, the protagonist and the antagonist.

Foreshadowing

Device used by the author to hint at future events in the story. It is used to create suspense and keep the reader interested in the story' s outcome. This is only known after the story is fully read.

Time

Hour, time line, and era in which the story happens

Place

Location, area, season or a story

Protagonist

Main character in a work of literature, who is involved in the central conflict of the story.

Climax

Point of greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a story. Usually makes the turning point in the protagonist's fortunes and the major crisis of the story.

Setting

The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

Internal Conflict

a conflict can be internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind.

Dynamic Character

is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action.

Indirect Characterization

the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action. Common in modern literature