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| 7243568823 | Plot | The sequence of related events in a narrative. | 0 | |
| 7243568824 | plot manipulation | When an author gives the story an unexpected or unjustified turn with the characters or situation involved. | 1 | |
| 7243568825 | Exposition | The opening of the plot that introduces the setting, characters and the major conflict. It is also known as the basic situation. | 2 | |
| 7243568826 | Setting | The time, place, and framing social environment of a story or play, serving to reveal character and suggest a theme. | 3 | |
| 7243568827 | Conflict | A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. | 4 | |
| 7243568828 | Dillemma | A position in which a character must choose between two undesirable courses of action. | 5 | |
| 7243568829 | Reversal (peripeteia) | The point in the plot where affairs turn in an unexpected direction. | 6 | |
| 7243568830 | Rising action | That development of plot in a story or play that precedes and leads up to the climax. | 7 | |
| 7243568831 | Climax | The turning point or the greatest point of emotional intensity that marks the moment when the conflict is decided, one way or another. | 8 | |
| 7243568832 | Bathos | Commonly known as "anti-climatic," this device adds the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style. | 9 | |
| 7243568833 | Falling action | That segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion. | 10 | |
| 7243568834 | Recognition (anagnorisis) | The point of the plot where a character suddenly realizes and understands his position and sees himself truly. It is the point of full self- awareness, usually occurring at the denouement. | 11 | |
| 7243568835 | Epiphany | In a literary work, a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences. | 12 | |
| 7243568836 | Denouement | Sometimes called the "resolution," it is the untying or unraveling of the plot when meaning of past events becomes clear. | 13 | |
| 7243568837 | Resolution | The conclusion of a story, when all or most of the conflicts have been settled; often called the denouement. | 14 |
