plot+setting Flashcards
What is Plot
a short story or novel consists of several basic events that form a whole narrative.
What is a Narrative
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story
What is Exposition
At the beginning of the narrative, we learn important background information about the characters, the setting and the situation and we may began to learn the nature of the conflict.
What is a Conflict
The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot. External conflict is the opposition or tension between two characters or forces. Internal conflict occurs within a character. Conflict usually arises between the protagonist and the antagonist in a story.
What is Rising Action
After an inciting incident or significant event, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character starts to experience complications.
What is Climax
The point at which the story’s suspense emotions, and tensions peak is the climax. This critical turning point marks when everything changes.
What is Suspense
A literary device that uses tension to make a plot more exciting; it is the effect created by artful delays and selective dissemination of information.
What is Comedy
Usually used to refer to a dramatic work that in contrast to tragedy, has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinary people, and is written and performed in the vernacular.
What is Tragedy
A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversal due to some character trait, referred to as a tragic flaw.
What is Falling Action
Opposite that causes behind the rising action, the falling action details the effects of what happens at the climax of the narrative, and the conflict comes to a point of resolution.
What is Denouement
“untrying the knot” in French and this part of the plot is often the shortest. Traditionally, readers learn how conflict has reached a resolution, and in the denouement a sense of balance has been restored. The denouement often expresses a sort of “moral story” or simply “ And they lived happily ever after”.
What is Resolution
The working out of a plot’s conflict’s following the climax.
What is in medias res
Latin for “ In the middle of things” a technique in which a narrative begins in the middle of a action.
What is flashback
A scean in a narrative that is set in earlier time than the main action
What is Foreshadowing
A plot device in which future events are hinted at.
