Ingredients
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 are the events that happen in the story?

100

True or False?

Short story is fiction.

What is False?

A short story can be non-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?

200

Two types of conflict.

What is external conflict and internal conflict?

200

The highest emotional point in the story.

What is Climax?

200

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

What is chronological order?

300

who narrates or tells the story?

The narrator.
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

How can you determine the conflict in the story?

It is the strudggle that is most central to the main character.

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?

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 a monologue?

500

Name 3 types of external conflict.

What is man vs man, man vs nature, and man vs society?

500

The plot is built around this.

What is conflict?

500

What is the difference between the main idea and theme?

Main idea is what the story is about while theme is the lesson the story teaches readers.

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