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 vantage point from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
The basic sequence of events of the story.
What is plot?
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 term used to describe a narrator that you believe or trust to tell a story accurately.
What is a reliable narrator?
The turning point of the story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak.
What is the climax?
The term that refers to how the writer/author tells the reader traits about the character(s).
What is Direct characterization?
The attitude the author conveys about a subject or audience through his/her diction.
What is tone?
The leading character or one of the major characters within a story.
What is a protagonist?
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?
The term used to describe a narrator that you have reason to believe does not tell the story truthfully or accurately.
What is an unreliable narrator?
An object, person, or event that represents not only itself, but a bigger and more significant idea.
What is symbolism?
The term that refers to how the writer/author shows the reader a character's personality through the diction or character's actions.
What is Indirect characterization?
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?