Literature and Plot of a Story

• A body of written works, applied to those imaginative works of prose, poetry, and drama.

  Literature
• A compilation of inter-woven series of tales in prose and poetry, mostly animal fables. It was compiled in Sanskrit (Hindu) and Pali (Buddhist).

  Panchatantra
• The sequence of events, logical series of events.

  Plot
• A type of plot that follows a single storyline from beginning to end in a straightforward sequence.

  Linear
• A type of plot that involves multiple storyline running alongside each other. These separate plots may intersect at key moments, influence each other, or perspective.

  Parallel
• Part of a plot that is the start of the story.

  Exposition
• Shows the reason of the conflict. This is where the conflict is introduced.

  Inciting Incident
• Part of a plot where the conflicts starts.

  Rising Action
• This is the most intense and exciting part of the story.

  Climax
• This is where the conflict is slowly getting resolved, the path where it leads the ending of the story.

  Falling Action
• The last part of the plot where the conflict is resolved and the story ends.

  Resolution
• This is the main struggle that a character's faces.

  Conflict
• A type of conflict where the struggle is within one's self.

  Internal Conflict
• A type of conflict where the struggle with a force is outside one's sef.

  External Conflict
• An internal conflict wherein the character faces their own decisions, emotions, and health.

  Character vs Self
• An internal conflict wherein the character is avoiding their prophecy or the fate that they should have come.

  Character vs Fate
• An external conflict wherein the character faces another character whose a Villain.

  Character vs Character
• An external conflict wherein the character faces the force of nature.

  Character vs Nature
• An external conflict wherein the character faces science that moves beyond control.

  Character vs Technology
• An external conflict wherein the character faces the fate of tradition, laws, and institution.

  Character vs Society
• An external conflict wherein the character faces ghosts, vampires, or ware wolves.

  Character vs Supernatural
• Refers to the angle or perspective from which the story is told.

  Point of View
• A type of POV wherein the narrator is a participant of a story. This POV uses "I, us, me, we, our."

  First-Person
• A type of POV wherein the POV pulls the reader into the story with the pronouns "you, your, yours." This POV is rarely used.

  Second-Person
• A type of POV wherein the narrator is out of the story, but the story is being told by the narrator and uses the pronouns "He, She, His, Hers, It, Its, They, and Theirs."

  Third-Person
• A type of 3rd POV wherein the narrator describes the action of events through the eyes of a single character; the reader only see what the character sees, feels, or thinks.

  Limited
• A type of 3rd POV wherein the narrator can enter into character's consciousness, describe their motives, feelings, and actions, and predict likely events to happen. Thus, as the narrator can move from one character to another, The narrator knows and sees everything.

  Omniscient