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It includes the time and place in which the story will be taking place.
What is setting?
People (or sometimes animals!) who are featured in a story.
What are characters?
The main challenge to overcome. It moves the story forward and is usually resolved during the climax.
What is conflict?
The sequence of events that tell the story, or the "structure."
What is plot?
This is how the story is being told. It influences how the audience will respond to it.
What is point of view?
It provides the necessary background information, like setting and characters.
What is exposition?
What is protagonist vs. self?
These are associated with a "moral of the story" or a hidden meaning.
What are themes?
This person is often the main cause of tension in the story.
What is antagonist?
Stories can be set in these three different time frames.
What is past, present, and future?
A point of view in which the story is narrated by a person who can get into characters' heads and explain their thoughts.
What is third person?
What is urban, suburban, and rural?
A character that is reliable but doesn't do much to move the plot forward.
What is static character?
A type of conflict in which the "hero" must challenge the "villain.'
What is protagonist vs. antagonist?
A type of theme that often involves the struggles in escaping oppression, war, or nature.
What is seeking freedom?
What is rising action?
A point of view that can get you inside the head of the main character.
What is first person?
What is redemption?
The dynamic character in the story, "Cinderella."
What is prince?
What is present and future?
Another term used to refer to the ending or resolution of a story.
What is denouement?
A type of conflict used in the book, "The Hunger Games."
What is protagonist vs. society?
They will get most of the attention of the author.
What is protagonist?
The point of view used in the short story, "The Egg."
What is second person?
A brief scene that may be necessary to conclude the key events that happened in the climax.
What is falling action?