2. The sequence of related events that make up a story or a drama.
Plot
The sequence of related events that make up a story or a drama.

3. A struggle between two opposing forces.
Conflict
A struggle between two opposing forces.

4. A struggle within the mind of a character.
Internal Conflict
A struggle within the mind of a character.

5. Internal Conflict
Man Vs Himself

6. A struggle between two opposing outside forces.
External Conflict
A struggle between two opposing outside forces.

7. Man Vs Himself Man Vs Man Man Vs Society Man Vs Nature
Internal Conflict
Man Vs Himself
External Conflict
Man Vs Man
Man Vs Society
Man Vs Nature

9. Exposition
Introduces the setting (time and place), characters and main conflict in the story.

10. Rising Action
A series of conflicts that build in intensity and lead to the turning point in the story.

11. Climax
The moment of highest emotional intensity or turning point in a story when the fate of the hero is usually sealed.

12. All the action in the story that follows the turning point.
Falling Action
All the action in the story that follows the turning point.

13. Denouement
A final unraveling of all the complications in the plot. Also known as the resolution.

15. What makes the reader want to keep reading.
Suspense
What makes the reader want to keep reading.

16. Building rising action through conflicts
Cliffhanger
Suspicion
Setting
Flashbacks
Foreshadowing
Using Time To Create Tension
Point of View
Suspense
Unsolved Mystery
Obstacles in the path of the hero
Twists & Turns in the Plot
Leaving Out Information
Switching Point of View
Dramatic Irony
Moving Danger Closer and Closer To The Hero
Characterization

17. The use of clues that hint at what will happen later in a story.
Foreshadowing
The use of clues that hint at what will happen later in a story.

18. The methods used to present the personality of a character.
Characterization
The methods used to present the personality of a character.

19. Direct
Characterization
The writer tells the reader explicitly (directly) what kind of person the character is.

20. Indirect
Characterization
The writer gives hints or clues about the character’s personality, and the reader must guess what kind of person the character is.

21. Other Characters' Speech or Thoughts About That Character
Indirect
Characterization
Character's Speech
Character's Actions
Character's Thoughts
Physical Description
Other Characters' Speech or Thoughts About That Character

22. A character who remains the same in attitude or personality.
Static Character
A character who remains the same in attitude or personality.

23. A character who undergoes a change in attitude or personality.
Dynamic Character
A character who undergoes a change in attitude or personality.

24. Flat Character
One dimensional characters that are not fully developed and have only 1 dimension or “side.”

25. Round Character
Fully developed, complex characters. We see many sides of their personality.

26. Stock Character
A type of character that recurs throughout literature with little or no variation. Often a stereotype.

27. The time and place in which the events of a literary work take place.
Setting
The time and place in which the events of a literary work take place.

28. The vantage point from which a story is told.
Point Of View
The vantage point from which a story is told.

29. First Person
Point of View
The vantage point of character inside the story using “I” (known as the “I” Point of View).

30. Third Person
Omniscient P.O.V.
The vantage point of an outsider looking into the story who can see into the minds of all the characters. (often called the “all-knowing” P.O.V.).

31. Third Person
Limited P. O. V.
The vantage point of an outside observer looking into the story through the eyes of one character.

32. Irony
Three types…

33. A speaker says one thing and means something entirely different.
Verbal Irony
A speaker says one thing and means something entirely different.

34. Irony Of Situation
The reader expects something to happen, yet something entirely different occurs.

35. Dramatic Irony
A reader or an audience knows something that a character in the story does not know.

36. Symbol
Something in a literary work which maintains its own meaning while at the same time standing for something broader than itself.

37. Theme
The main idea expressed in a literary work; the central insight that the work gives us about human life.