Plot, Setting, and Characterization

Literary device that writers use to structure what happens in a story.

• Setting

• Plot

• Characterization

• Climax

It uses another character, narrator, or the protagonist himself to tell the readers or audience about the subject.

• Direct or explicit characterization

• Indirect or implicit characterization

A Literary tool that was coined in the mid-15th century.

• Setting

• Plot

• Characterization

• Freytag's Pyramid

The most prevalent depiction of plot as a literary device.

• Rising Action

• Freytag's Pyramid

• Climax

• Conflict

Increased tension as a result of the central conflict.

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Exposition

Pinnacle and/or turning point of the plot.

• Exposition

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

The beginning of the story, in which the writer establishes or introduces pertinent information such as setting, characters, dramatic situation, etc.

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Exposition

Begins with consequences resulting from the climax and moves towards the conclusion.

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

End of the story.

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Climax

A literary device that allows the writer of a narrative to establish the time, location, and environment in which it takes place.

• Plot

• Setting

• Characterization