Literary Elements

==Prose==
===Prosaic Literary Elements===
*'Plot: sequence of events
*Setting: time and place in which the story takes place
*Protagonist: main character
*Antagonist: character in conflict with the protagonist
*Narrative method: the manner in which a narrative is presented
*Narrator: who narrates the story
*Conflict: an issue in the narrative around which the story revolves
*Mood: general atmosphere of a narrative
*Theme: the central idea or conept of a story
===Prosaic Literary Techniques===
*Imagery: figurative language to create sensorial representations of actions, objects and ideas in our mind in a way that appeals to our physical senses.
*Simile and Metaphor: Both compare two distinct objects and draw similarities between them. Simile uses like, as, than, similar to, or resembles.
*Dramatic Irony: when the audience understands the implication and meaning of a situation on stage, or what is being said, but the characters do not.
*Fore-shadowing: arranging information in a narrative in such a way that later events are hinted at beforehand.
*Non-linear plot: the story is told out of chronological order.
==Poetry==
===Poetic Literary Elements===
*Stanza: main building block of a poem
*Rhyme: is the correspondence of sound between words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
**External: end of lines
**Internal: middle of the line
**Rhyme Scheme: A rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza. Rhyme schemes can change line by line, stanza by stanza, or can continue throughout a poem. The patterns are encoded by letters of the alphabet.
*Meter: specific length and emphasis on a given line. It is the rythmic structure of a line within a poem. The number of syllables + a pattern of emphasis on those syllables.
**Foot: A line of poetry can be broken into "feet," which are the individual units within a line of poetry. A foot of poetry has a specific number of syllables and a specific patter of emphasis. In English poetry, the most common types of metrical feet are two or three syllables long. They're characterized by their particular combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. They include:
***Trochee: Pronounced DUH duh , as in “ladder"
***Iamb: Pronounced duh DUH , as in “indeed"
***Spondee: Pronounced DUH DUH , as in “TV"
***Dactyl: Pronounced DUH duh duh , as in “certainly"
***Anapest: Pronounced duh duh DUH , as in “what the heck!"
**Metrical feet are repeated over the course of a line of poetry to create poetic meter. We describe the length of a poetic meter by using Greek suffixes:
***one foot = monometer
***two feet = dimeter
***three feet = trimeter
***four feet = tetrameter
***five feet = pentameter
***six feet = hexameter
***seven feet = heptameter
***eight feet = octameter
*Speaker: the voice who tells the poem (NOT the author)
===Poetic Literary Techniques===
*Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds across a line
*Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds across a line
*Alliteration: repetition of the same sound across the start of words in a line
*Enjambment: when the end of a phrase extends past the end of a line