Setting / Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Theme / Characters
Character Type
100
Where the action of the story takes place.
What is place?
100
Without this, there is no plot.
What is conflict?
100
This is the definition to "point of view".
What is "the angle (perspective) from which the story is told"?
100
Ivan and the lieutenant from "The Cemetery Path" are examples of this.
What is "characters"?
100
This is the main character around whom the action revolves.
What is "the protagonist"?
200
THIS is illustrated in the following example: It was dark, cold, windy and snowing.
What is weather (conditions)?
200
These are the two types of conflict.
What are "external" and "internal conflicts"?
200
From this point of view, the story is told by the protagonist or a character who interacts closely with the protagonist or other characters.
What is "First Person"?
200
In this, we begin to learn about the characters.
What is "the setting"? or "What is "the introduction"?
200
This is the character or force in opposition to the main character.
What is "the antagonist"?
300
A feeling created at the start of the story.
What is mood (or atmosphere)?
300
This kind of conflict is when the leading character faces struggles against fate or situations in life.
What is man vs. circumstance?
300
From this point of view, the reader can know the thoughts, feelings and motivation of various characters.
What is "omniscient"?
300
These two aspects define "theme".
What are: "the underlying meaning/main idea of the story" and "the moral of the story"?
300
One who lacks complexity and possesses few qualities or traits.
What is "a flat character"?
400
These are the five parts of the plot:
What is introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement?
400
This kind of conflict is a struggle within oneself about ideas of right or wrong, physical limitations, choices, etc.
What is "Man vs Himself/Herself"?
400
While they are both told from a third person's point of view, these two points of view differ in that the first, we can only see the thoughts and feelings of characters if the author chooses to reveal them to us, and the second, no information or interpretations are offered on the characters and their thoughts.
What are "omniscient limited" and "omniscient objective" (in that exact order)?
400
Characters are revealed in these five ways:
What are "what the character says, thinks, does, what others say about him/her, and what the author says about him/her"?
400
One who has familiar qualities and may appear regularly in literature.
What is "a stock/stereotype character"?
500
This is the definition of setting.
What are descriptions that help set the scene, the time and place, the weather and/or social conditions, and the mood/atmosphere?
500
In this kind of conflict, the leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of other people.
What is "Man vs Society"?
500
This is the definition of "stream of consciousness".
What is the point of view that allows readers to feel as if they are inside the head of one character (knows all their thoughts and reactions)?
500
This can usually point to what the writer is saying about the theme. He/she may use various figure of speech.
What is "the title"?
500
This is the difference between a static character and a dynamic character.
What is "one who remains the same throughout the story versus one who undergoes a change in emotion or attitude at some point in the story"?
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