Narrative Elements 1
The when and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
The person or voice telling a story.
What is a narrator?
The feeling(s) created in the reader.
What is mood?
The operation of summing
plus/addition
11-(-2)
13
The basic sequence of events of the story.
What is plot?
The leading character or one of the major characters within a story.
What is a protagonist?
The vantage point from which a story is told; it is the stance from which the action and events of the story unfold.
What is point of view?
The number obtained by division
quotient
20x20
400
The turning point of the story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak.
What is the climax?
Daily Double!
The vantage point from which the story is told.
The attitude the author conveys about a subject or audience through his/her diction.
What is tone?
The number left over in a division problem
remainder
6x7
42
The universal moral or lesson about life or humanity.
What is theme?
A character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
The struggle between two characters or between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
operation performed to find the product
multiplication
Daily Double!
9^2
The four different points of view.
What is first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient?
The struggle within a character's mind or heart.
What is internal conflict?
The 5 elements of a Narrative? (100 points per item)
Characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution
The product of three equal terms (a number times itself times itself)
cubed
2^3
8