Structure
Narrative Elements Potpourri
Characters
Genre
Problems
100
What happens in the story.
What is plot?
100
The lesson a character learns in a story.
What is theme?
100
People, animals, or objects who make the action happen in a story.
What is character?
100
An untrue story.
What is fiction.
100
The problem in a story.
What is conflict?
200
The events in a story that lead up to the climax.
What is the rising action?
200
Time and place.
What are the two parts of setting?
200
The main character.
What is protagonist?
200
Category of literature.
What is genre?
200
The number of types of conflict.
What is three?
300
How the story ends.
What is resolution?
300
The most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
300
Whatever opposing force the protagonist is struggling with (it may be a character, the environment, or something within the protagonist).
What is an antagonist?
300
A story about a person's life and is written by the person who lived it.
What is an autobiography?
300
The type of conflict when a character battles the environment.
What is person versus environment?
400
How the author "sets the stage" or begins the story.
What is exposition?
400
Good will triumph over evil. Your friends always have your back. Honesty is the best policy.
What are common themes found in stories?
400
One of the characters, using the personal pronoun "I", tells the story.
What is first-person?
400
A selection about a real person's life that is written by another person.
What is a biography?
400
The type of conflict when a character battles another character.
What is person versus person?
500
All-knowing
What is omniscient?
500
Omniscient, first person, third person
What are points of view?
500
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is third-person?
500
A combination of imagination and fact, with fictional characters and plot placed in a factual historical setting.
What is historical fiction?
500
The type of conflict where a character battles himself/herself?
What is person versus self?
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