Basic Elements
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
A problem between characters.
What is Person Against Person?
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
This is word that describes a series of events that make up a story.
What is Plot?
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
A problem within a character's own mind..
What is a Problem Against Self?
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is Exposition?
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.
What is a Person Against Society?
The lesson a story teaches.
What is Moral?
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is Rising Action?
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
What is giving human like qualities to nonhuman things?
What is a personification?
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
This is the turning point of the story and the moment when the suspense reaches its peak which results in a change for the main character. This sometimes occurs at the end of the story, without being followed by the falling action.
What is the Climax?
Concrete, specific objects that are used to represent abstract ideas?
What is a symbol?
What is a reference to another literary or artistic work or cultural icon/event.
What is allusion?
The development of a character is known as?
What is characterization?
This occurs after the climax of the story, resolves conflict and ties up loose ends of the story.
What is the Falling Action/Resolution?