Basic Elements
Conflict
Point of View/Irony
Stylistic Devices
Plot Line
100

One of the people or animals in a story.

What is a character?

100

A problem between characters.

What is Person Vs. Person?

100
The angle by which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.
What is Point of View?
100

The writer states a character’s traits or characteristics

What is Direct Characterization?

100
The action of the story follows a specific diagram.

What is Plot Line (or diagram)?

200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200

A problem within a character's own mind..

What is a Person VS Self?

200
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me)
What is First-Person Point of View?
200

Anything that stands for or represents something else

What is Symbol?

200
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is Exposition?
300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300

A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.

What is a Person VS Society?

300
You are part of the story because you are a character in the story. (you, your)
What is Second-Person Point of View?
300

The lesson or message a story teaches.

What is Theme?

300
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is Rising Action?
400
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
400

A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.

What is a Person VS Nature?

400

Irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning

What is Verbal Irony?

400

An expression that has a meaning particular to a language or region.

What is Idiom?

400
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?
500

The action that makes up the story. It follows a certain diagram structure. 

What is the Plot?

500

Characters fighting vampires, werewolves, aliens, or wizards usually occurs in science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels.

What is a Person Vs. Supernatural

500

The type of irony when the outcome is the opposite or completely different from what was expected.

What is Situational Irony?

500

The type of irony where the audience is more aware of a character’s situation than the character is.

What is Dramatic Irony?

500

This occurs after the falling action of a story where conflicts are resolved and loose ends are tied up. 

What is the Resolution?

600

A character who takes part in the action but is not the focus of attention

What is a minor charactor?

600

A type of literary conflict in which a character faces technology (such as a robot, a machine, or a mechanical failure) and must prevail against it.

What is Person vs. Technology?

600

"Thank You M'am" was told from this point of view so we could see Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones AND Roger develop as characters. 

What is third-person omniscient?

600

The general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions

What is Irony?

600

The elements of plot after a story's climax and before the resolution. Where conflicts begin to get resolved. 

What is falling action?

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