New Concepts

Rhetorical Situation Concepts:
Design Plan
Audience:
Purpose:
Context:
Medium:
Strategies:
Arrangement:
Testing:

Writing Process Concepts
Freewriting: Writing without stopping for a certain amount of time.
Brainstorming: listing every idea and detail that comes to your mind.
Clustering a type of freewriting and brainstorming which draws on free association and unedited work by combining writing and nonlinear drawing.
Asking Questions: Asking yourself a set of questions about a subject and then writing out the answers
Revising:
Editing:
Proofreading:
Peer review:

Literary Concepts
Character: Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation.
Climax: The critical point in the story which changes the course of events or the point in the story where the main character faces a crisis and must make a crucial decision that will effect the outcome of the story.
Description: Description details the sensory qualities of a person, scene, thing, or feeling using concrete and specific words to convey a dominant mood, illustrate an idea, or achieve some other purpose.
Dialogue: The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a discussion (e.g., Plato's Republic). Bad dialogue is pointless. Good dialogue either provides characterization or advances the plot.
Flashback: A break in the continuity of a story to introduce an earlier event
Foreshadow: A hint or clue to future events in the story
Metaphor: A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking. When we speak of "the ladder of success," we imply that being successful is much like climbing a ladder to a higher and better position.
Plot: The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction. In order for a plot to begin, some sort of catalyst is necessary. While the temporal order of events in the work constitutes the "story," we are speaking of plot rather than story as soon as we look at how these events relate to one another and how they are rendered and organized so as to achieve their particular effects.
Point of View: The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds. Point of view governs the reader's access to the story. Many narratives appear in the first person (the narrator speaks as "I" and the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within it). Another common type of narrative is the third-person narrative (the narrator seems to be someone standing outside the story who refers to all the characters by name or as he, she, they, and so on).
Setting: The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place.
Simile: An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, in contrast with a metaphor which figuratively makes the comparison by stating outright that one thing is another thing.