1. Literary Terms Mrs. Scheitlin

2. Plot Development Introduction Rising Action (conflict) (man v man…)
Characters
Setting
Rising Action (conflict) (man v man…)
Climax (conflict no longer exists)
Falling Action (events just after climax)
Resolution (story ends)

3. Plot Development
Climax
F.A.
Rising Action Resolution
(conflict)
Intro

4. Conflict
Man v Man
Man v Society
Man v Nature
Man v Self

5. Sub Plots
These are the support systems of the whole; they make a story much more interesting providing needed details for complete understanding…

6. Parallel Episodes
This is where an event is repeated somewhere else in time…
Even perhaps in another world…

7. Flashback
When the author takes you back in time to give you information that helps to explain events or character motivation in a story

8. Foreshadowing
When the author gives you hints about what will happen in the future

9. Suspense…
a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
2. a state of mental indecision.

10. Details Small parts that go together to make a whole
They make writing more exciting
Can be sentences or groups of words
Can be your 5 senses
What details describe the following???

11. Imagery …allows a writer to show a writer what she means instead of just telling someone.
I took a walk around the world to Ease my troubled mind I left my body laying somewhere In the sands of time I watched the world float to the dark Side of the moon I feel there is nothing I can do
--"Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down

12. Theme The writer’s message about life Alienation Ambition
The American Dream
Coming of Age
Community
Death
Education
Ethics…
…the list goes on and on

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14. Antagonist The evil character in the story
The character who works in opposition to the main character (protagonist)

15. Protagonist Usually describes as the main character in a story…
The hero!

16. Flat Characters Characters who are one-dimensional
They represent only one character element (evil, happy-go-lucky, timid, a bully).

17. Round Characters Characters who are wholly developed.
You have great insight into the many different facets of their personality.

18. Static Characters
These characters never change throughout the story

19. Dynamic Characters
These characters do change, or grow, throughout the story.

20. Character Motivation Why does the character act the way he does???
Some of us want wealth, power, love, food, and, as you can see, often these are interrelated. To find the heart of a character we must find his/her motivation.

21. Character Motivation
We learn about the character by what he says and does
We learn about the character from what others say about him

22. Dialog Related to Characterization
Dialog that is specific to that character.
“Luke. I am your father!”

23. Archetypes
the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.

24. Direct Characterization
He was tall and exceedingly lank, with feet that served as shovels, and a long snipe nose.
The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, and appearance.

25. Indirect Characterization
the writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.

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27. Mood The feeling one gets when reading Suspense Patriotic
Light and funny
Horrifying
Anxious
Anger

28. Tone The author’s attitude toward his writing
Understanding the author’s tone will lead to understanding the meaning of the writing

29. Connotation The feelings you bring to the definition of a word
Home – a building where people live… would you rather live in a mansion or a slum?

30. Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Home – a building where people live

31. Dialect A regional variation of speech Southern accent Boston accent
NYC accent

32. Idiom A group of words that can not be taken literally
It’s raining cats and dogs.

33. Style 1) the machinery of writing 2) the writer's voice
Achieved through words
concrete, specific
Omit unnecessary words
Powerful verbs and nouns
Avoid clichés and jargon
Use of connotation and denotation

34. Irony Where what happens is not what you expected to happen
Situational irony – based on events
Verbal irony – based on language

35. Allusion
A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing
…a Mona Lisa smile

36. Point of View Ist person 2nd person 3rd person limited
I, me, we, us
2nd person
you
3rd person limited
Only inside one character’s mind
3rd person omniscient
Inside the minds of many characters

37. Setting
Time
Place

38. Metaphor
Saying that something IS something else

39. Simile
A comparison of 2 unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

40. Personification

41. Hyperbole
Extravagant
exaggeration or
overstatement

42. Alliteration

43. Oxymoron
A phrase made
up of words with
opposite meanings

44. Motif
a recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary, artistic, or musical work

45. Epiphany
A sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something