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| the introduction to a story, including the primary characters' names, setting, mood, and time. |
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| an episode, plot point or event that hooks the reader into the story. |
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| the second of six essential plot elements, which comes right after the opening of a story, otherwise known as the exposition |
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| the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex |
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| what happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict. |
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| It is when you learn what happens to the characters after the CONFLICT is resolved |
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| a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation. |
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| one that contends with or opposes another |
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| the character who drives the action--the character whose fate matters most. |
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| an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions or principles |
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| an indication of something that will happen in the future |
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| a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.” |
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| a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated. |
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| attribution of personal qualitiescbvrf5 |
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| the time and place in which a story is told. |
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| a literary device that combines words with contradictory definitions to form a new word or phrase. |
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| a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character vvvvvvvvvf4 |
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| A pun is a joke based on the interplay of homophones |
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| a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear |
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| a speech given by a single character in a story |
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| a literary device that allows audience members to know what a character thinks or believes |
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| a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story. |
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| a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent. |
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| the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected. |
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| a device that evokes certain feelings for readers through a work's setting, tone, theme, and diction. |
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| a literary device that reflects the writer's attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work |
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| A literary device by which the audience's or reader's understanding of events or individuals in a work surpasses that of its characters. |
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