A literary device known to introduce the background of a story to its audience, for example a character's background, a story behind a certain setting, and readers even learn the main conflict.

 This literary device is used to build suspense. The character may try to solve the problem, but fails. While still learning about things from the exposition we could meet new characters, see new conflicts, attitudes or a shift in tone. The author tries to make this part of their story attention grabbing, as they are about to get to the "climax," of the story (or the good part as people call it).

As a reader, you now just got to the best part of the story! This literary device is used to display the highest point of action. This could be displayed by characters making a life changing decision, a character battling in life-or-death, or something very exciting happens with the story. The point of the climax is to keep the character reading as there could drastic changes in the plot.

There's not too much going on with this literary device. After the dramatic events that happened in the climax, you're now in the point of the story where the characters may be finally able to solve the conflict or get to an understanding of it. For example, characters talking about their problems/feelings after it was blown up into argument, or realizing battling wasn't the answer and working together could help to solve the conflict. The reader gets to partly see how the resolution may occur.

This literary device being found in the end of the story, the reader has now finished the book, anecdote, poem, etc. This means the conflict in the story was either solved, or settled upon. Characters found their lost treasure after searching so long, s/he found true love in the end, or even a little girl finally reuniting with her dog. These kind of things are examples of resolution.