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Essential Literary Terms: Understanding Characters, Plot, and Conflict in Storytelling

Explore the foundational terms in literature that define story elements, including characters, plot structure, and conflict types. Understand the roles of protagonists and antagonists, the importance of setting, and the sequence of events from exposition to resolution. Learn about different types of conflicts, including internal and external struggles, and key concepts like mood, tone, foreshadowing, and perspective. This guide will enhance your understanding of narrative techniques and improve your analytical skills in literary studies.

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Essential Literary Terms: Understanding Characters, Plot, and Conflict in Storytelling

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  1. Short Story Terms to Know

  2. Characters A person in a literary work. • PROTAGONIST– main character in the story • ANTAGONIST --The opposer of the main character

  3. Setting • The time and location in which a story takes place is called the setting.

  4. Plot • The sequence of events in a story, novel, or play. (events)

  5. Parts of the Plot Exposition—Beginning of story—introduces characters, setting and conflict. Rising Action—adds complications to the conflict

  6. Parts of the Plot • Climax—Point of greatest interest/suspense in a story • Falling Action—events after climax leading to resolution. • Resolution—conclusion of story (ending)

  7. Plot Diagram

  8. Conflict • The central struggle between opposing forces in a story or drama

  9. Types of Conflict • External - A character struggles against some outside force • Internal - A struggle between opposing needs, desires, and emotions within a character’s mind

  10. Miscellaneous Terms • Compare—to examine two or more things in order to note similarities • Contrast—to compare to show unlikeness or differences

  11. Miscellaneous Terms… • Mood- the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. • Tone- expresses the writers attitude toward his/her subject • Foreshadowing- when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in the story.

  12. Miscellaneous Terms… • Flashback- an interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time. • Irony- reality is opposite of what it seems. • Theme- message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

  13. Point of View • POV- refers to the method of narration. • Subjective POV- give personal opinions or views • Objective POV- only gives facts

  14. Point of View • 3rd person limited- the narrator tells what only one character thinks, feels, and observes. • 3rd person omniscient- the narrator sees the mind of all characters. • 1st person- the narrator is a character in the story.

  15. Character • Static Character- remains the same throughout the story, never changes. • Dynamic character- undergoes important changes as a plot unfolds.

  16. Character • Round Character- major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described. • Flat Character- a minor character in a work of fiction who does not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story

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