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People and animals in a story
What are characters?
The author’s attitude towards a subject
What is Tone?
Struggle or problem a character must overcome.
What is Conflict?
Conflict is solved and is the end of the story
What is Resolution?
Why an author is writing something
What is Author's Purpose?
Who the author is writing for
What is Audience?
When the story is being told about You, Your, Yourself
What is 2nd Person Point of View?
An organizational tool used to map the events in a story
What is a Plot Diagram?
Who is narrating or telling the story
What is Point of View?
The turning point in the story where the conflict is about to be solved? Change occurs.
What is Climax?
The person speaking using words like I, Me, We, & Us
Sequence of events in a story and has a beginning, middle, and end
What is Plot?
Rising action where the conflict gets complicated
What is the Main Event or Complications?
The main character in a story, often thought of as the “good guy”
What is Protagonist?
The final events leading to the resolution
What is the Falling Action?
When the intention of the story is to teach the reader to do something
What is Teach?
When the purpose of the story is to influence the reader’s viewpoint
What is Persuade?
When the author’s purpose is to share facts about something with the reader
What is Inform?
When the purpose of the story is to amuse readers
What is Entertain?
The feeling the reader gets from the story or word choice in the text
What is Mood?
The character that opposes the protagonist in the story. Often referred to as the “bad guy”
What is Antagonist?
The main events in the plot that lead to the climax
What is the Rising Action?
The introduction of the characters, setting, and conflict, at the beginning of the story
What is the Exposition?
Where and when the story takes place
What is Setting?
The one being spoken about is he, she, they, them, it
What is 3rd Person Point of View?