Plot
The beginning of the story.
What is the Exposition?
This type of character is ypically a person, but can technically be anything - an alien, an animal, a situation, time itself.
What is the Antagonist?
A genre of story meant to scare you.
What is Horror?
The most common type of conflict.
What is Man v. Man?
The ultimate message that the story is trying to convey.
What is Theme?
The middle of the story, where everything changes.
What is the Midpoint?
A character who changes due to the story events.
What is a Dynamic Character?
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a Biography?
This conflict involves struggles with morality, sense of self, and goals
The part of the story where one of the characters is narrating the story.
What is First Person POV?
The longest portion of the plot.
What is Rising Action?
A hero who often does the right things, but with questionable methods or for their benefit.
What is Antihero?
A singular story containing few characters, settings, and often focused on one theme.
What is Novella?
The Hunger Games, Edward Scissorhands, and Avatar have this type of conflict.
What is Man v Society?
What is Setting?
The part of the story often called the “Call to Adventure”
What is the Inciting Incident?
A character who serves as the opposite to another character.
What is a Foil Character?
The "Big 5" story elements.
What are Character, Plot, Setting, Conflict, Theme?
The Last of Us, Titanic, and Jaws fall under this type of conflict.
What is Man v. Nature?
The POV where the story is structured around the “you” pronoun.
What is Second Person POV?
Another word for "Resolution".
What is Denouement?
The three types of Character Arcs.
What are Positive, Negative, and Fall Arcs?
A narrative composed from personal experiences.
What is a memoir?
The four types of conflict.
What is Man v Man, Man v Self, Man v Nature, and Man v Society?
The point of view where the narrator knows everything about the characters and the world.
What is Third Person Omniscient?