literary devices

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literary devices

The central character, around which the conflict revolves.

1. Antagonist
2. Anti Hero
3. Support
4. Protagonist

The sequence of events in a story.

1. Timeline
2. Chronology
3. Plot
4. Antagonist

The central idea or message of a story is often a perception of life or human nature.

1. Place
2. Theme
3. Climax
4. Mood

a struggle between the protagonist and another character / against nature or some outside force.

1. Internal conflict
2. Internal problem
3. External conflict
4. External problem

Disagreement or fighting within an organization.

1. External conflict
2. Internal conflict
3. Resolution
4. Internal problem

Introduces the story's characters, setting, and conflict

1. Exposition
2. Beginning
3. Climax
4. Introduction

Occurs as complications of the conflict.

1. Climax
2. Point of view
3. Falling action
4. Rising action

Use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later within the story

1. Foreshadowing
2. Hidshadowing
3. Irony
4. Mood

The emotional high point of the story.

1. Resolution
2. Climax
3. Exposition
4. Falling action

A struggle between opposing forces.

1. Conflict
2. Exposition
3. Resolution
4. Plot

The final outcome of the story.

1. Ending
2. Falling ending
3. Resolution
4. Falling action

The vantage point from which a story is told.

1. Point of view
2. Theme
3. Exposition
4. plot

This point allows the narrator, who is not a character in the story, to share the thoughts and feelings of only one character.

1. Point of view
2. third-person point of view omniscient
3. first-person point of view
4. Third-person point of view limited

The outcome of a situation or opposite of one is saying or meaning.

1. Irony
2. Mood
3. Hidshadowing
4. Ending