Plot Line
Exposition
Conflict
Author's techniques
Other
100
The turning point or high point in the story.
What is the climax?
100
The place and time of the story
What is the setting?
100
A problem or struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
100
The feeling a piece of literature is intended to create
What is mood?
100
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
200
The action and dialogue following the climax.
What is the falling action?
200
A person, animal, machine or creature in a story
What is a character?
200
A problem within a character's own mind.
What is internal confict or person against self?
200
The message about life or human nature
What is theme?
200
The spelling of the principal's last name.
What is T-A-L-B-O-T?
300
The part of the story where the conflict is resolved and the story comes to a satisfying conclusion.
What is the resolution?
300
The main character or hero in the story.
What is the protagonist?
300
A problem between a character and school, the law, a tradition, etc.
What is person against society?
300
The action in the story.
What is plot?
300
three types of conflict that occur between the character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
400
The setting, characters, and background information are given in this part of the story.
What is the exposition?
400
Information that you need to know about the characters that are not part of the story.
What is background information?
400
A problem between two characters
What is person against person?
400
The attitude a writer takes toward his/her subject, characters, and audience.
What is tone?
400
The person or character who actually tells the story.
What is narrator?
500
The part in the story where the conflict is exposed.
What is the rising action?
500
The person or force working against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
500
A problem between a character and a blizzard, hurricane, mountain, etc.
What is person versus nature?
500
Conversations characters have with one another.
What is dialogue?
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