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Literary Terms

Published on Dec 03, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PLOT

  • Exposition: presentation of background info
  • Rising action: sets stage for climax all action that occurs before the climax
  • Climax: Turing point. Point of greatest intensity
  • Falling action: action that occurs after the climax
  • Resolution occurs after the climax and falling action

SETTING

  • The environment of the story
  • Location of the action and time

MOOD AND TONE

  • Emotional atmosphere of the story
  • Tone is the voice of the narrator

CONFLICT

  • Struggle between opposing forces
  • Internal conflict takes conflict in characters mind.
  • External conflict: struggle between character and a outside force

THEME

  • The main idea about what the story examines.

FORESHADOWING

  • The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen next

SUSPENSE

  • Makes the reader wonder about what will happen next

IRONY

  • A discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

MADE BY

DARBY AND CLAY