Story Elements 1
What do we call the sequence of events in a story?
What is the main message (or lesson) in the story?
Theme
When and where a story takes place?
The setting
What are the people or animals in a story?
What are the three parts of a story?
Beginning, middle, end.
The author
What do we call the person who draws the pictures for a story?
An illustrator
What do you call making a list of differences between two characters?
Contrast
What do you call making a list of similarities between two characters?
Compare
What do you call the person the story is about?
Main character
Using clues from the text and your background knowledge to answer a question.
Inferencing
When something has to be fixed in a story, what do we call it?
A problem
When a character has figured out how to fix something, what has he/she done?
Found a SOLUTION
Character traits
What do you call the people or animals in the story when it is not their story being told?
Supporting characters
What is the part of the plot after the climax but before everything is resolved in the story?
the falling action
When a conflict in a story is one person against another person, the conflict is call man/woman versus
man/woman
When does this happen in Little Red Riding Hood:
On her way Little Red Riding Hood met a wolf. ‘Hello!’ said the wolf. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘I’m going to see my grandmother.
In the middle of the story
What story has the following characters:
A girl with blonde hair, a mother bear, a father bear and a baby bear.
Goldilocks and the three bears
What story has the following characters:
Jack, his mother and a giant.
Jack and the Beanstalk
The moral of a story
The theme
when the problem in a story is inside the main character, that conflict is call man/woman versus ______/____________
himself/herself
What part of the story is the high point or turning point in the plot?
the climax
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
In what part of the plot are the setting and characters introduced?
the exposition