Story Elements
The 5 total story elements.
What is plot, setting, conflict, theme, and characters?
Pov.
What is the perspective that the story is being told?
STEAL.
What is speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?
-ful.
What is full of?
SWBST.
What is somebody, wanted to, but, so, and then.
The 3 parts of setting.
What is time, place, and mood?
The story is told using I/Me/We/Us pronouns.
What is 1st person POV?
When the author describes someone with clear descriptive words.
What is direct characterization?
-able, -ible.
What is having the power, skill, or opportunity to do something?
The point of an objective summary.
What is to be short with descriptive words?
6 parts of the plot.
What is exposition, triggering action, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
What is the story being told to the reader with you/your pronouns?
When the author uses STEAL to describe a character.
What is indirect characterization?
-less.
What is lacking/without?
5 kinds of conflict.
What is person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs supernatural, and person vs environment?
What is internal and external?
The story is narrated but not all-knowing.
What is 3rd person limited?
A character that is complex and changes throughout the story.
What is dynamic/round?
-ly, -ily.
What is in the manner of?
Theme.
What is the BIG IDEA?
Theme formula.
What is conflict+resolution=theme?
The story is narrated by someone who knows every character's feelings and thoughts.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
A character that is simple and does not change throughout the story.
What is static/flat?
-id.
POV that external conflict normally uses.
What is the 3rd?