Elements of Fiction
Word Nerds
Reading Strategies
Writing a Narrative/Leftovers
Parts of a Plot Map
100
When and where the story occurs
What is setting
100
Not changing; stays the same throughout the story or novel.
What is static?
100
Saying what you think will happen before reading.
What is predicting?
100
Another name for story.
What is narrative?
100
The introduction of a story or novel.
What is exposition?
200
People or personalities in a story
What are characters?
200
Changed by experiences encountered.
What is dynamic?
200
Asking a question about the story while reading.
What is questioning?
200
The beginning of the story; used to hook a reader.
What is Lead?
200
How the problem in a story or novel is solved.
What is resolution?
300
Conflict in a story.
What is problem?
300
Main character in a fiction story.
What is protagonist?
300
Picturing in your head what is happening in the story.
What is visualizing?
300
Talking in a story or novel.
What is dialogue?
300
Events in a story leading up to the climax.
What is rising action?
400
Sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
400
A force opposing the main character in a story or novel.
What is antagonist?
400
Comparing something in the story to your own life.
What is inferring?
400
How the problem in a story or novel is solved.
What is resolution?
400
Events in a story after the climax.
What is falling action?
500
The message the author is trying to send.
What is theme?
500
The introduction of a story or novel.
What is exposition?
500
Telling what the story was about in a few sentences.
What is summarizing?
500
Picking out the main idea in a story.
What is determining importance?
500
Turning point or point of highest action in a story.
What is climax?
M
e
n
u