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Definition: The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
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Definition: An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
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Definition: The sequence of events in a story
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Definition: The beginning of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed.
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Rising Action/Complications
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the series of struggles that build a story or play toward a climax |
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the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. |
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Falling Action/Denouement
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Events after the climax, leading to the resolution |
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A struggle between two opposing forces |
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The struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character which drives the dramatic action of the plot. |
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Internal Conflict (Man vs. Self)
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When a character is challenging his/her own beliefs or overcoming his/her emotions |
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the person the story is mostly about |
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Less important characters in the story; they interact with the main character and help to move the plot along. |
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A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action |
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A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end |
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A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story |
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A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work |
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Stock Character (Stereotype)
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a character based on immediately recognizable categories or types (social, religious, racial, etc.), not allowing for individuality |
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the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character |
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Author directly describes character |
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Indirect Characterization
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Author subtly reveals the character through actions and interactions. |
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A character or force in conflict with the main character |
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| a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
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| The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs. point of view the perspective from which a story is told first person |
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| a character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself |
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The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and their problems - told in the 3rd person.
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| Narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts. |
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| A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. |
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| A feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story; key element in fiction and drama; "hook" writer uses to keep audience interested |
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| the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. |
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| the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc. |
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| the mood/ feeling of the literary work created for the reader by the writer. |
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| A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. |
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| An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
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| A contrast between expectation and reality |
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| saying something you obviously don't mean; "Nice hair, Mr. Tawney." |
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| when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't |
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| A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |
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| A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule. irony the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
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| A character who acts as a contrast to another character |
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