Literary Elements

A prologue is an introductory scene of a film that introduces the audience to the film, its characters, the tone, and/or pertinent themes. This scene should be able to stand on its own, and it should function as its own separate story with a beginning, middle, and end. Prologues can take different forms in film.

Exposition is a literary term that refers to the background information the audience needs to know for the world of your story to make sense. ... Exposition includes anything from character introductions to set details and dialogue and is most common at the beginning of the story.

In literature, the voice expresses the narrator or author's emotions, attitude, tone and point of view through artful, well thought out use of word choice and diction. ... The sound of someone's voice is just a physical characteristic, whereas a literary voice is a part of writing and storytelling.

A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. ... Throughout the history of cinema and TV, screenwriters and filmmakers have used foreshadowing as a means of engaging the audience with the story.

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. ... In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma".

A literary device that compares two opposite things to make a moral teaching or just to teach (sometimes teach a deeper meaning)

Example?

"Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more."

A motif is a repeated narrative element that supports the theme of a story. A motif in film can be presented in a number of ways like physical items, sound design, lines of dialogue, music, colors, and symbols. Any motif used will vastly improve your story if it has narrative significance.

A climax is the most intense, exciting, or important point of a movie. It marks the amalgamation of all the scenes that came before it and includes most of the payoffs within the film.

 Wilbur is declared the winner at the county fair, and his life is saved (the farmer will not butcher him). 

A little girl has been looking for her lost dog. She hears a bark coming from around the corner, and she looks around to see . . .

The denouement is an aspect of the narrative that gives context and resolution to a major theme, relationship or event in a story. ... Unlike a story's epilogue, the denouement is essential.