LITERARY TERMS AND DEVICES

The time and place in which the events in a story occur

A character with little depth or complexity and so can easily be described in a single phrase or sentence.

A character that does not change or develop over the course of a story.

A character that does not change or develop over the course of a story.

Occurs after the climax and is where conflicts are resolved and ends are tied up.

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The big idea or central idea that a writer wishes to express in the story.

a scene in a story that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier

the story is told from a third-person POV but limited to the thoughts and feelings of a single character.

The writer tells a story in the third person but avoids including any thoughts and feelings of a single character.

A fully developed character with the complexities of a real person and is difficult to describe in multiple sentences.

An imaginary person or anything presented as a person created by the writer.

the vantage point from which the story is told.

The events of a story plot that occurs before the climax

The story is written in the third person point of view, multiple characters' emotions & thoughts are revealed.

The person or force opposing the protagonist

First-person POV: The story is told by one of the characters in his or her own words, using I.

A struggle between two opposing characters or forces in a story. It can be EXTERNAL or INTERNAL.

A particular way of speaking or writing. Show's the writer's attitude toward characters, settings, conflicts, etc.

makes a reader anxious or tense about what will happen next in the story

The central character of a story.

Dialogue: the feeling or emotion created by the story.

An everyday type of character that appears so often in stories that their nature is immediately familiar to the reader.

Falling action- the time and place in which the events in a story occur

The narrator is the one who tells the story

The introduction; background information regarding the setting, characters, and plot.

a device based on contrast. the use of words to express something other than the opposite of the literal meaning.

The sequence of events in a story.

the feeling or emotion created by the story

The reader gets a hint or clue to what might happen next in the story.

The most exciting point in a story. It is the point at which the reader finds out if the protagonist triumphs/fails.