Broad Elements
Point of View
Conflict
Plot
Misc
100
The time, place and weather
What is setting?
100
When the story is told from the point of view of a character within the story.
What is first person?
100
Define conflict
What is the struggle between opposing forces?
100
Define plot
What is the events that happen in the story?
100

True or False: short story is fiction

What is True. A short story is fiction

200
the outcome of the conflict
What is the resolution?
200
The story is told from the perspective of an outside observer.
What is third person omniscient?
200
Two types of conflict
What is external conflict and internal conflict?
200
The highest emotional point in the story
Climax
200

When the events of the story are told in the order that they happened.

What is chronological order?

300
who will narrate or tell your story
What is point of view?
300
The point of view that uses the pronouns I, me, and we
What is first person?
300
The struggle that occurs within the heart and mind of the character.
What is internal conflict?
300
Events leading to the climax
What is rising action?
300

A technique for hinting at events that may occur later in the plot.

Foreshadow

400
The message of life illustrated through the story
What is theme
400
The point of view that uses the pronouns he, she, and they.
What is third person omniscient?
400
Conflict that occurs outside of the character
What is external conflict?
400
the introduction of the characters and situation
What is exposition?
400
The conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
500
Four ways to describe a character.
What are actions, gestures, movements, and feelings.
500
When the character thinks out loud.
What is interior monologue?
500

Name 3 types of external conflict.

What is [man vs man, man vs nature, man vs society, man vs supernatural, man vs. technology, man vs. fate]

500
The plot is built around what
What is conflict?
500

The insertion of an earlier event into the time order of a narrative

What is flashback

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