literarydevices

//**Plot**// - the term used for events making up the story //**Introduction**// - introducing the characters, elements and plot //**Rising Action**// - the basic internal conflict is complicated by the introduction of a secondary conflict, including various obstacles that deter the protagonist from his goal //**Climax**// - the third act or the final turning point of the story //**Conclusion**// - to sum up all of the events at the end //**Setting**// - the surroundings or the environment //**Antagonist**// - the character who creates obstacles for the protagonist to get him farther away from it's goal //**Protagonist**// - the main character that is the main force of the story, everything revolves around it //**Round Character**// - is a major character that changes when it is encountered by conflict //**Flat Character**// - normally a background character, it does not gain any substantial growth through the whole //story// //**Dynamic Character**// - a major character that encounters conflict //**Static Character**// - this character does not change through the course of the story //**Conflict Types**// - human vs environment, human vs human, human vs society (eg; church), human vs animal //**Metaphor**// - a term used to conceive one thing as another (eg; "sea of troubles" ~ Shakespeare) //**Personification**// - a term used when objects or something non-human is given human characteristics(eg; the stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky) //**Simile**// - a term used to conceive one thing as another using like or as (eg; he was as ferocious as a lion) //**Allusion**// - is a reference from a literary art to another work of fiction, a piece of art, a film or even a real event //**Oxymoron**// - a term in which contradictory terms appear side by side (eg; giant ant) //**Euphemism**// - a way of toning done the hostility or anger in a sentence //**Foreshadowing**// - focusing on a certain object, or mentioning such object early in the story to tell the reader, viewer it will be important later on in the book or film //**Point of View**// - the story from a certain characters view //**Omniscient**// - the use of third person pronouns (eg; he, she and they) //**Satire**// - the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. //**Symbol**// - a person, place, action, word or thing represents something other than itself //**Theme**// - the main idea or message in the story //**Irony**//: a. //**Dramatic**// - the effect is used in narrative so only the audience knows more than the character b. //**Verbal**// - when the intending meaning of the statements is different the word appearance c. //**Situational**// - involves a incongruity what is expected and what actually occurs //**Imagery**// - a term used for imaging a picture in your head using only sense in the text