4 page essay in 3 hrs

Setting-time, place, and mood (the emotional atmosphere)

Plot-what happens in a narrative; the sequence of events

Conflict-struggle within the story which may be either internal or external (or both);

timeless conflicts include Man vs. Man, Circumstance (especially Nature), Society, Self

Point of View-angle or perspective from which a story is told; chief diofference involve the

narrator writing in either 1st or 3rd person and the degree of knowledge shared by the narrator, the objective or subjective nature of the teller, the choice to interpret events or not, and the limits or omniscience of the reporting

Mood-emotional atmosphere (dark, light, suspenseful, comic, languorous, cloudy, remorseful)

Tone-author or narrator’s attitude toward the subject being shared

Climax-when the conflict is resolved (or finally realized without resolution)

Theme-controlling idea or insight of a story; main idea about man and reality; literary epiphany

Symbol-something that represents something else; a stage in the progression of ideas from image

to metaphor to symbol to allegory to archetype, wherein an object or person is either merely described, given representative value, made a fixed equivalent or sign of a larger idea, or even made a part of a symbol storyfor a larger message than first appears (as in fable or parable)

Characterization-portrayal of a figure in literature as static (flat) or dynamic (round), antagonist

or protagonist (contender or chief character), hero or antihero (ideal or anti-idealic protagonist)

Irony-condition of contrast between:

What is expected and what happens (situational irony),

What is known by the reader and what is known by characters in the work—with at least some of the characters being ignorant of the truth (dramatic irony), and/or

What is said and what’s meant or understood (verbal irony)