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Plot
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Plot: the way the author sequences and paces the events so as to shape our response and interpretation.
Sequencing: order in which events are related that create a specific focus, effect, and meaning.
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Pacing: the duration of particular episodes. They can be relative to each other adn to the time that they would take in real life. Pace determines focus, effect, and meaning.
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Conflict
Exposition: introduces the charactes, their situations, and time/place. Expositions usually reveals some source of seed of potential conflict in the initial situation.
Rising action: it beings with an inciting incident which destabilizes the initial situation. What keeps the actions rising is a complication, an event which introduces a new conflict or intensifies the existing ones.
Climax: moment of greates emotional intensity. The climax involves an epiphany and in turn, onternal or phsychological events.
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Characters
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Flat/round: simple, one dimentional characters that are predictable or repetitive vs characters that act from conflicting motives and have psychological complexity.
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Setting
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Setting always functions as an integral part of the whole. It helps to establish the mood, stuation, and characters. Setting can also reveal a character's personality, and be an actor in the plot. It can often prompt the characters' actions. It is related to the conflict or themes of the stories.