Exposition
Backround information before page 1
Rising action
Plot events leading to the climax with clues (foreshadowing about what happens later)
Conflict
Struggle between two opposing forces
Internal conflict
Person struggles within themselves
External conflict
Person struggles against something or someone else
Climax
Point of greatest action in the story
Falling action
Events leading to the resolution
Resolution
The end of the story
Setting
Where and when, time and place
Characterization
Physical anf personality traits
Point of view
The perspective from which the story is told
First person
Characterer uses “i”
Third person limited
Narrator knows 1 persons thoughts
Third person omniscient
Narrator knows everyone’s thoughts
Third person objective
Narrator knows nobody’s thoughts
Theme
Lesson learned
Symobolism
A object represents an idea
Allusion
Reference to something we’ll known
Idiom
A phrase of saying that does not use the literal meaning “break a leg”
Foreshadowing
Hints of what might happen later in the story
Mood
The feeling the story creates
Rhyme scheme
Pattern of rhyme
Free verse
Poetry that does not have rhyming
Repetition
Repeating words or phrases