English Plot Points

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Inciting Action

Action/event that initiates the central conflict

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Conflict

The plot problem

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Rising Action

An event or situation that intensifies the existing conflict

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Climax

Point at which the conflict must be resolved

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Falling Action

Unraveling of the conflict

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Conclusion

Ending

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Exposition

Where you find the Setting, Protagonist, and Antagonist

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Irony

Gap in understanding

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Situational Irony

Between what the reader expects, and what actually happens in the story

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Verbal Irony

Gap between what is said and what is meant

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Dramatic Irony

Gap between what the character knows and what the reader knows

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Simile

A comparison between two dissimilar things using “like” or “as”

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Metaphor

A comparison between two dissimilar things NOT using “like” or “as”

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Personification

Giving non human things human qualities