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Question

How do you create and properly l abel the plot of a story?
What is Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?

What is- Antagonist, characterization, conflict, dialogue, dialect, flashback, fireshadowing, imagery, irony, moddy, point of view, protagonist, setting, symbolis, theme?

How do you identify and explain specific figureative language?
Whats a metaphor, simile, personification?

In the book Lord of the Flies-
What is the plot, themes, symbols, conflicts, etc.








This isn't homework, it's a final exam study guide.

Answer 1

I can help you with a few i can remember now.
1. simile is like comparing two things by using "like" to show the comparison.Ex: The shirt was white like snow (by this,you liking the appearance of the shirt to the snow but not literary mean the shirt is snow).
2. Metaphor is almost like a simile but in metaphor ,you compare two or more unlikely things.Ex:She is as meek as a mouse (here i used "as....as" and that should be your little clue.In some way,the subject and the object are related).
3.Personification is relating inanimate objects as animate.Ex:The tornado was showing its fierce anger (note that a tornado is not a living thing so cannot show anger like humans do but we are relating to it in the example like an angry looking "man".)
4.Antagonist is a supporting character in a fiction,usually this persons role in the fiction or art revolves around the character.It is almost like a supporting actor in a movie.
5.Protagonist is the 'hero" or the main character and the whole story revolves around him/her.Protagonist can be a human,an animal or a non living thing.Ex. the protagonist in the "Desire" by Kate Chopin is Armand.
6.Conflict can be internal or external.It can be a struggle against nature,a person or emotions.Ex.The pain from the death of a person courses internal conflict to his survivers.in fictions,such conflicts are related to the protagonist,the main character.Ex. Loss of property or disasters are examples of external conflicts.
7.Setting is the geographical or location where the story evolves.Ex. include cities,villages and sometimes, they are mentioned in the story but if a setting is not mentioned,the author provides explicit description of the environment to help the reader picture where they story is taking place.
8.Climax is the arrangement of actions according to their order of importance.It's somewhat like the tension that rises in the story.Ex. if someone tells you that "i came,i saw"...... and you will be holding your breath like and what happened?.Another example is like when you watch a movie and someone stands there and another person comes from behind holding a sword..you will be like oh my god!!!!!
9.Resolution is when the story is fully resolved.Ex. when police investigate a case,you are hoping that they find the culprit and that's how stories work.Just like you want a "bad" character in the movie to pay for his crimes.So therefore,the resolution is how all the action in the movie is finally brought to an end.
10.Flashback is sometimes to tell about an action that has taken place in the story but should have being told in the end or in the middle.It is just like telling a story by starting with something that happened at the end or in the middle of the story.By so doing,you are not following a chronological order.Ex. Mary is now facing a huge prison term for involvement in Henry's murder......then you begin the story with how they met.(note here that,i began with mary in prison but not what led to that,so after i've started with how the story should have ended then i begin to write like i should have started in actual sense.)
Do some online research to help you study more on them.

Answer 2

For plot:

Think of a volcano. Literally draw one on a piece of paper and make it exploding--lots of lava going up in the air.

Exposition: first part of a typical plot where you learn the basic 411 about the characters and setting.

==> It's like being on the bottom left of the volcano and you've just looked up and realized: hey! there's a volcano (setting), and there's a family living there: a mom, a dad, a little boy named Billy and his little dog too (characters).

==> Now you start climbing up the left side of the volcano. This is the Rising Action. You notice the ground is getting a bit hot and it's even starting to rumble. Things are starting to "heat up" in the plot. People are doing things, events are happening, so there's some "movin' and shakin'" going on. You figure out the central conflict and you start to see the main character make an effort to resolve his conflict but obstacles are getting in the way (the heat, the shaking on our volcano climb). These obstactles are called "complications." The higher we climb, the more trouble we seem to be getting into. We're sweating; we're stressed; we're still trying to get to the top, and it's all building to...

the climax. The volcano explodes. This is often a "turning point" for the story because something happens to the character (main) or s/he does something, decides something from which there's no turning back. Just like you can't scoop up the lava and stuff it back in the mountain. There's no turning back; all you can do is run down the hill fast and try to protect yourself from the "fall out."

This fall out--the consequences of decisions and choices; the results of certain actions that all came to a head is the "falling action." Think of the ash that goes up into the sky and then falls back to earth as acid rain and ash. The story is beginning to wrap it self up at this point. You start to see whether the conflict is going to be resolved (is the family safe; are you safe; are you traumatized for life and will never go back to a volcano site; are you even more driven to go up another volcano now, blah, blah, blah). Then there's the resolution.

There's all of this destruction and fall out and consequences, but after a volcano erupts, the land becomes some of the most fertile farm soil ever. Stuff starts growing again, people move back by the mountain, people's hearts heal from their losses. Hope comes back. The conflict is resolved (hopefully--not always though).

This volcano analogy works best when you think of drama where there's some negative situation (a tragic play or sad story for instance). It doesn't make as much sense when you think of a comedy because, well, erupting volcanoes aren't funny--but the order is still the same:

Exposition
Rising Action
Climas (Turning Point)
Falling Action
Resolution

That's enough help from me; the rest you can look up on google so you can hone your research skills. I'm confused as to why you are just now looking for basic definitions/lit terms for a final exam review. I'm assuming your teacher has been trying to beat them into your head for several weeks but you haven't been listening/working, so now your in a panic.

Good luck.

Lord of the Flies as really obvious symbolism, conflicts, themes, etc. If you've read the book with any kind of focus at all, you should be able to figure it out on your own.

Answer 3

ok.. well in order rising action is the beginning of the story., climax is the hight of the drama, falling action is the winding dowm and resolution is the end result. the antagonist is the main character.. characterization is giving inanimate object real qualities.. like the wind sighs..or the trees groan.. dialogue is speaking between two characters, dialect is how the words are taken.. flashbacks are when a character remembers the past,,and takes you back to that time.. foreshadowing is a glimpse of whats to come...like saying that he looked like death.. well he's prolly gonna die.. imagery.. there is olefactory(smell) otic(sight) taste..etcetera.. its descriptive words... point of view is who the story is toldthrough.. like if i say i went to the store.. then its my point if view.. setting is where it takes place.. symbols are something in the story taken as somethng else.. like a rose symbolizes love..or blask symbolizes death... a metaphor is saying he IS something.. like he is a rock.. a similie compares using like or as... example.. he stood upright, like a tree... and personification is giving ANIMALS (not inanimate objects) human qualities... like when animals talk in stories. and ive never read lord of the flies so i dont know.. lol hope i helped.

Answer 4

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