| setting | | catches the reader's attention |
| resolution | | time and place |
| climax | | turning point in the story |
| fallingaction | | plot events that lead to climax |
| dramaticirony | | universal idea or moral |
| exposition | | to say one thing but mean the opposite |
| irony | | characters, setting, and basic situation |
| theme | | when neither the audience or the characters know what will happen in the story |
| genre | | fictional work of at least 100 pages |
| situationalirony | | when the audience knows what will happen in the story but the characters do not |
| storydiagram | | fictional work with fewer pages than a novella and has only one mood or effect on the reader |
| novella | | struggles within the character, against another character, or against some other outside force |
| risingaction | | plot events that lead to the resolution |
| plot | | fictional work of about 50 pages |
| shortstory | | a category made by content, style or form in literary works |
| conflicts | | difference between appearance and reality |
| verbalirony | | a way to map out the parts of a literary work |
| novel | | how the main conflict |
| narrativehook | | events in the story |