Story Elements
A person, animal, or imaginary creature in a story.
What is a character?
A conflict inside a character's mind; a problem to solve or decision to make.
What is internal conflict?
The turning point in a story.
What is climax?
What is the setting of the story, "All Summer in a Day?"
What is Venus.
(or school)
A word that means: in a wild or disorderly way.
What is tumultuously?
The time or place of a story.
What is setting?
A type of external conflict in which one character opposes another character.
What is character vs character?
The beginning of the story; the characters and setting are introduced.
What is exposition?
What are the children waiting for as the story begins?
The sunshine.
A word that means: "to slow down or slacken."
What is slacken?
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
A type of external conflict in which a character is opposed by a government or a rule/law of society.
What is character vs. society?
The end of the story; ALL problems are resolved.
What is the resolution?
The story says: the children came in from the rain with "solemn and pale" faces. From this, you can infer that they felt ___________.
ashamed, embarrassed, guilty
A word for: "the technical equipment needed for a particular activity."
What is apparatus?
It is normal to include specific events and character names in a story's theme.
True or False?
False
Buzz Lightyear struggles with the idea that he is a toy and not an actual spaceman.
What is internal conflict?
Near the end of the story; MOST problems are resolved, but NOT all.
What is falling action?
One reason the children treat Margot badly is because she ____________.
might get to return to Earth and they don't.
A word that means: "very large or great."
What is immense?
The lesson the characters in a story learn.
What is theme?
Standing up for civil rights, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white person.
What is character vs society?
The event that causes the conflict in the story to arise.
What is the inciting incident?
At the beginning of the story, the children look out the window because they want to see it rain.
True or False?
False
A word that means: "appreciate fully; taste or smell with pleasure."
What is savor?