Elements of Fiction
Potpourri 1
POV
Plot Map
Potpourri 2
100
The main people or animals of the story.
What are characters?
100
Summarizing strategy
What is SWBST?
100
Who is telling the story
Who is the narrator?
100
The ending of the story
What is the resolution?
100
When the narrator is outside the story and you cannot hear any of the characters thoughts
What is third person objective?
200
The problem of the story
What is the conflict?
200
The good guy, or the person the the conflict happens to
Who is the protagonist?
200
When the main character is the narrator and is telling the story
What is first person?
200
When the problem is solved
What is the climax?
200
A words dictionary definition
What is denotation?
300
The time and place of the story
What is the setting?
300
The character who causes the problem or the bad guy
Who is the antagonist?
300
When the author is the narrator and they are speaking directly to the reader
What is second person?
300
The introduction to the story including the setting, characters, and conflct
What is the exposition?
300
What you think of when you hear a word. Your connection to it.
What is connotation?
400
The lesson or moral of the story
What is the theme?
400
When the narrator refers back to a time previous to the start of the story that connects with the story.
What is a flashback?
400
When the narrator is outside the story and you can hear one of the character's thoughts.
What is third person limited?
400
The main events of the story between the beginning and climax
What is the rising action?
400
Characters speaking out loud in a story
What is dialogue?
500
The events of the story
What is plot?
500
When the narrator hints at future story events.
What is to foreshadow?
500
When the narrator is outside the story and you can hear two or more of the characters thoughts
What is third person omniscient?
500
The events that happen after the climax of the story
What are the falling action?
500
The main thing that your story is about. Usually in five words or less.
What is central idea?
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