Elements of Fiction
Sets the story in motion. Contains Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
What is Plot?
The people, animals or things in the story that have thoughts and emotions.
What are Characters?
The reason an author writes a story. Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, or Describe
What is the Author's Purpose?
Literary stories that have fictional characters and settings?
What is Fiction?
How a play is divided up into parts.
What is Acts?
Writing technique that poets use to make words have sounds. Ex. rhyme and onomatopoeia.
What is Sound Devices?
The problems that the characters face in the story. Presented in the beginning of the story.
What is Conflict?
Where the story takes place, including the time period. For Ex: forests, castles, past or future.
What is the setting?
Drawing a conclusion using the evidence from the text and your own knowledge.
What is Inference?
Stories that feature magical elements, mythical creatures, or imaginary worlds.
What is Fantasy?
The group of lines in a poem.
What is Stanzas?
Comparing two unlike things using the words like and as. Ex. She's as pretty as a rose.
What is Simile?
How the characters resolve their problems in the story.
What is the Resolution?
The message the author wants the reader to take from the story. Can be moral or lesson.
What is the Theme?
A shortened version of the story focusing on the main parts retold in your own words.
What is Summary?
Stories focused on solving a crime or puzzle, often with suspenseful plots.
What is Mystery?
A story told as a performance with actors portraying characters acting out the story.
What is Drama?
Story told from the characters point of view.
What is First Person?
The turning point of the story, usually the most exciting or surprising part of the story.
What is the Climax?
The physical and emotional features of a character in a story.
Character Traits
The author's style of writing. The author's use of language, tone, voice and mood in their writing.
What is Author's Craft?
Stories that explore the impact of science and technology on society, often set in the future.
Type of writing that does not follow any structure or rules and uses figurative language.
What is Poetry?
Comparing two unlike things not using like or as. Ex: She is my sunshine.
What is Metaphor?
The events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is Falling Action?
The thoughts and emotions a character has in a story.
What are Character Actions?
Language that is meaningful but not literal. Examples include similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia's.
What is figurative language?
Stories that are set in the past and may include real historical events or figures.
What is Historical Fiction?
Directions that are only visible to the actors that tell them how to act and where to move in the play.
What is Stage Directions?
The person who tells the story.
What is Narrator?
The main parts of the story which includes problem and is usually set up as 3-4 main events.
What is Rising Action?
The lesson or moral that the author wants the reader to learn from the text.
What is the message?
Restating the events of a story including the beginning, middle, and end.
What is Retell?
Folktales, legends, fables, and fairy tales passed down through generations.
What is Traditional Literature?
The settings within a drama, that shows where the drama takes place.
What is Scenes?
Giving a non-human object or animal human like qualities.
What is Personification?
Occurs at the beginning and introduces the main character, setting, and basic situations needed to understand the story.
What is Exposition?
Writing that uses the five senses to help create an image for the reader.
What is Imagery?
Writing that explains in detail and uses sensory language to help create an image in the reader's mind.
Stories that could plausibly happen in the real world, with believable characters and settings.
What is Realistic Fiction?
The spoken lines and actor says in a drama.
What is dialogue?
Story told from an all-knowing narrator's point of view.
What is Third Person?