Literary+Devices

Plot: The plot is what happens in the story, to all the characters and all the drama and irony that happens between to make up the story.

Introduction: An introduction is what introduces all the characters and the setting, and the point of view the story is told from.

Rising Action: Rising action is where complications and conflicts with the Protagonists and Antagonists of the story begin to build up until the turning point in the story (climax).

Climax: The climax is the high point in the story, its where the suspense that the story was building up is released and most of the story is revealed, after the climax the story begins to wrap up and this is called the Falling Action.

Conclusion: The conclusion doesn't really tell you anything new it just tells you what the story was about and tells you what the author was trying to say, basically the moral of the story.

Setting: The setting is where the story takes place, like time, place, atmosphere, etc...

Antagonist: The Antagonist is the person, place, or thing that is against the Protagonists, and thats creating the conflict in the story.

Protagonist: The Protagonist is usually the main character of the story, who is conflicting the Antagonist.

Round Character: The Round character in a story is sometimes a very important character in the story, usually 3 dimensional, and sometimes can be the main character.

Flat Character: The Flat character in the story is more usually a side character just one you don't get told much about in the story, is also usually 1 dimensional.

Dynamic Character: The Dynamic character is the one that changes in the story, and can usually be the main character (Protagonist).

Static Character: The Static character in the story is the the one who doesn't change or isn't affected by the changes in the story ( not usually the main character).

Conflict Types: Man vs Man Man vs Himself Man vs Environment Man vs Community Man vs Society etc...

Metaphor: A Metaphor is similar to a simile but it uses words other than like or as and has the same meaning.

Personification: The word Personification means giving life like qualities or traits to inanimate objects.

Simile: A simile is a comparason using like or as as the conjunction ex. "I sunk like a rock!".

Allusion: A Allusion is a reference to a another writing of fiction to bring greater meaning to the thing your writing about.

Oxymoron: An Oxymoron combines two terms which usually are considered opposites, basically like a paradox.

Euphemism: A Euphemism is a what you do to avoid using bad or unappropriate language, but still getting the message to the reader.

Foreshadowing: Foreshadowung is what a writer uses early in his story to suggest what is coming later in the story, although the reader may not know it's forshadowing until later in the story. You can see foreshadowing in movies as well.

Point of View: The point of view is the perspective that a story is being told from. There are three types of POV's first person, third person, and omniscient.

Omniscient: Omniscient is a point of view where the story tells all the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in the story.

Satire: Satire is what a writer puts into a story to make the reader either laugh or cry, it basically creates emotions in the story.

Symbol: A symbol is a object in a story that means more to people than meets the eye, which therefore makes the object important in the story.

Theme: The theme of a story is what a setting of a story is based around, basically the mood of the story.

Irony: a. Dramatic:

b. Verbal:

c. Situational:

Imagery: