Story Elements
The "where and when" of a story. It is the time and place during which the story takes place.
What is setting?
Is excitement, tension, and curiosity.
What is suspense?
Is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
The main character of the story, the one with whom the reader identifies. This person is necessarily good.
What is a protagonist?
Is the conclusion and all the loose ends are tied up.
What is Resolution?
The feeling the author tries to convey throughout the story.
What is mood?
DOUBLE POINTS!! Is the hint or clue about what will happen in story.
What is foreshadowing?
Usually occurs at the beginning of a short story. Here the characters are introduced.
What is exposition?
The force in opposition of the protagonist; this person may not be "bad" or "evil", but he/she opposes the protagonist in a significant way.
What is an antagonist?
When the reader does not expect it.
What is surprise ending?
A person, animals, and things participating in a story.
What are characters?
Interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past.
What is flashback?
Begins to develop the conflict(s).
What is Rising Action?
Is an outside force that may be a person, group, animal, nature, or a nonhuman obstacle.
What is external conflict?
A character from the story is telling the story; using the pronouns "I" and "me".
What is first person point of view?
The dramatic struggle between two forces in a story.
What is conflict?
Is the use of specific objects or images to represent ideas.
What is symbolism?
Climax is the turning point of the story, and the main character comes face to face with a conflict.
What is Climax?
DOUBLE POINTS! The controlling topic about life or people the author wants to get across through a literary work.
What is theme?
An outside narrator is telling the story; using the pronouns "he", "she", and "they".
What is third-person-point of view?
The practical lesson or moral from a story after we read it.
What is theme?
Is when you make a thing, idea, or animal do something only humans do.
What is personification?
The events that take place after the climax.
What is falling action?
Takes place in a character's mind.
What is an internal conflict?
DOUBLE POINTS!! When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of All the characters in a story.
What is third-person Omniscient?