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 the conflict in the story, they have found a
solution
How a character looks and the type of person/animal they are is called that character's
traits
In what part of the story are the setting and characters introduced?
in the beginning also known as the exposition
Once upon a time is a classic setting in what kinds of stories?
fairy tales
When the main character is conflicted, for example they may be afraid of a lot of things, this is called person versus ______ .
self
Stories that are passed down orally, or spoken out loud, from generation to generation.
folk tales
When a character has a conflict with a group of people or the world it is called person versus
society
If a character is trying to survive a tsunami, this conflict would be called person versus
nature
What is the part of the story when everything is resolved?
the end
When a conflict in a story is one person against another person, the conflict is called person versus
person
What part of the story does the main character try to fix or solve the problem or conflict?
In the middle of the story
Folktales are never similar and are also always unique to one country. True of False?
false
Name two things you might find in every fairytale
A general setting like Once upon a time or a faraway land
Magic
Royal characters (prince, princess)
Theme or lesson
Good and Evil