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Plot and Conflict• Plot: is what happens in a story.
– Plot contains:• Basic situation• Conflict• Series of Events• Climax• Resolution
Conflict• A struggle between opposing
characters or opposing forces.– Internal: takes place in the
character’s mind (struggles with shyness, accepting differences among friends)
– External: struggles against an outside force (another person, a group of people, or a force of nature)
Climax• The story’s most emotional or
suspenseful moment.• This is the point where the conflict
is decided one way or another.
Resolution• The end of the story.• This is where the loose ends of the
plot are tied up.
• And they lived happily ever after…» Or did they?
Point of View• Omniscient: is the all-knowing
point of view (The people are…)• First-person: told from one
character’s perspective (I am feeling…)
• Third-person limited: the narrator is telling the story from one character’s perspective (This boy is…)
Characterization• Direct characterization: when a
writer tells you directly what the character is like.
• Most writers don’t do this anymore.
• Instead…
They Show you.• Indirect characterization: you
have to observe the character and come to your own conclusion about the kind of person you are meeting.
• For example: The man looked into your eyes as if he were looking straight into your soul.
The writer shows what a character is like by:
• Appearance (How do they look?)• Action (What are they doing?)• Speech (How do they talk?)• Thoughts and Feelings (What are they
thinking?)• Other characters’ reactions (Are other
people afraid? Do they like the person?)
Mood and Theme• Mood: the overall feeling of a story,
poem, or other work of literature.– Words to identify mood:
• Nostaligic• Peaceful• Exciting• Scary• Regretful• Angry• Joyful• Proud