Plot
The height of the action in a story.
This is the main character of the story.
What is the protagonist?
This cannot exist without the conflict.
What is the plot?
This is where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
The point at which the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
This is the character that the main character is in conflict with throughout the story.
What is the antagonist?
This happens when a character struggles against their environment or other characters.
What is external conflict?
This is the overall message that drives the author to write the story.
What is theme?
The "ordinary world" that exists prior to the introduction of the conflict.
What is the exposition?
What is character development?
This happens when characters struggle with their own beliefs and desires.
What is internal conflict?
The author creates this as a means of capturing the reader's attention and raising the stakes.
What is suspense?
The goal of the rising action leading up to the climax.
What is the escalation of tension and/or suspense?
This is a character that doesn't change much, if at all, over the course of a story.
The rising action of a story needs to do this effectively if the climax is going to have the impact the author wants.
What is raise the stakes?
This is the perspective in which the story is told from within the main character's mind.
What is first person point of view?
This drives the author's choices in how to structure their plot as well as every other decision they must make while writing their story.
What is the theme?
What is a foil character?
The three primary types of conflict within fiction.
What is Character vs. Character, Character vs. Nature, and Character vs. Self?
This is when the story is told from the outside, but we, as the reader's, have insight into all of the character's thoughts and actions.
What is third person omniscient point of view?