
Complication or Rising Action -Intensification of conflict. Exposition -Background information regarding the setting, characters, plot. Conflict -Struggle between opposing forces. Suspense -A sense of worry established by the author. Foreshadowing -A suggestion of what is going to happen. Causality -One event occurs because of another event. Plot -The arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story. Implied Judgment -Narrator gives description reader make the judgment. Explicit Judgment -Narrator gives facts and interpretive comment. Characterization -The means by which writers reveal character. Dynamic character -A character who changes in some important way. Static character -A character who remains the same. Minor character -0ften provides support and illuminates the protagonist. Antagonist -A character or force that opposes the protagonist.
Protagonist -Major character at the center of the story.Motif-A recurrent thematic element, dominant theme, or central idea in an artistic or literary work.Ĭlassic-An artist, author, or work generallyĬonsidered to be of the highest rank or excellence, especially one ofĮnduring significance, one recognized as definitive in its field.Ĭharacter - people created by the writer – perhaps the most important element of literature. Madness/sanity, love/hate, society/individual, known/unknown). Innocence/experience, life/death, appearance/reality, free will/fate,
Idea or point of a story formulated as a generalization (e.g.,