Prose

The series of events building up to the point of greatest importance in the narrative

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

The most important point of the narrative, where events of the greatest intensity occur

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Conclusion

any writing that does not have a metrical structure and rhythmical pattern like poetry; composed of sentences and paragraphs instead of lines and stanzas

• Poetry

• Prose

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

events in the story are not real; they are products of the author’s imagination

examples are short stories and novels

• Prose

• Poetry

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

It has over 40,000 words (novella has 17,500–39,999 words, novelette has 7,500–17,499 words)

• Plot

• Prose

• Short stories

• Novels

features distinct episodes that are related to one another but that also can be read individually, almost as stories by themselves

• Cumulative plot

• Episodic plot

• Frame narrative

• Climactic plot

Contains repetition of phrases, sentences, or events with one new aspect added with each repetition;common among children’s stories

• Episodic plot

• Climactic plot

• Cumulative plot

• Embedded plot

important background information helpful in setting up a story; includes the setting and the main character’s backstory

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Conclusion

the part of the narrative where the aftermath of the climax is addressed

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Conclusion

read in one sitting and strive for unity and effect

begins with the first sentence and has nothing in it that detracts from the writer’s design

• Prose

• Short stories

• Novel

• Novella