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lang arts 2
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plot | Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
Resolution | the act of resolving or determining upon an action, course of action, method, procedure, etc. |
Chapter | a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title. |
Exposition | a large-scale public exhibition or show, as of art or manufactured products: an exposition of 19th-century paintings; an automobile exposition. |
Parallel | extending in the same direction, equidistant at all points, and never converging or diverging: parallel rows of trees. |
genre | of or relating to a distinctive literary type. |
Rising action | a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
Foreshadowing | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war. |
Act | anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act. |
Climax | (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. |
Flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. |
Scene | the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder. |
Falling action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved. |
In media res |