Main Idea
What is the Main Idea?
What the story is mostly about.
A lesson or moral that the author is trying teach us.
The end of a story
Resolution
The Narrator is all-knowing
Third Person Omniscient
Green Eggs and Ham
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
If you lie all the time no one will believe you
Where we learn of the stakes to the main conflict. The build-up in a story.
Rising Action
The Narrator only knows what the thoughts of one character are.
Third Person Limited
Three Little Pigs
Three pigs build houses out of various materials, but the weaker of the two houses are obliterated by a wolf, who wants to eat them.
Green Eggs and Ham
Try New Things
persistence can pay off
The big face-off or where the stakes are finally met.
Climax
Narrator used the word "I"
First Person
A Christmas Carol
Three ghosts visit Scrooge....
A Christmas Carol
It's Never too late to change
etc.
Where loose ends are tied up.
Falling Action
The narrator uses the word "you"
Second Person
Crispin
Boy who runs away meets Bear...
Three Little Pigs
don't take shortcuts
be prepared
When we are introduced to the setting, main characters, potentially the main conflict.
Exposition
The narrator reports as if they are a fly on the wall.
Third Person Objective