Elements of Fiction
Plot Diagram
Vocabulary
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Elements of Nonfiction
100
People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of the story.
What is What are The characters of a story?
100
Part where the story becomes more complex.
What is the rising action?
100
The struggle between a character and something outside the character.
What is external conflict?
100
how the reader feels after he/she reads a story
What is mood?
100
bullets, bold words, italics, sidebars, graphs, maps, pictures, and captions
What are text features?
200
Writing that comes from an authors imagination.
What is Fiction?
200
The turning point when the action reaches a peak and the outcome of the conflict is decided.
What is the climax?
200
The conflict is within the characters mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
when the author gives hints about what will happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
200
this text structure discusses a subject in the order in which it happened by using dates and/or times
What is chronological?
300
It is the time and place at which the events of the story happen.
What is the setting?
300
Sets the stage for the story. Characters are introduced, the setting is described , and the conflict begins to unfold.
What is the exposition?
300
The main character in a work of literature. The hero.
What is the protagonist?
300
Characters that change dramatically in a story.
What are dynamic characters?
300
this text structure discusses a conflict and proposes ways to resolve it
What is problem/solution?
400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
the events that follow the climax and bring us to the resolution. The outcome of the sequence of events.
What is falling action?
400
T.A.P.S
What are thoughts, actions, personality/physical traits, and speech?
400
Characters that do not change dramatically or at all in a story.
What are static characters?
400
this text structure discusses an event(s) and the result(s) of it
What is cause/effect?
500
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
500
Loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
The character that is against (or opposes) the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500
The complication or struggle in the story.
What is the conflict?
500
another name for text structure
What is organizational pattern?
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