Elements
Point of View
Conflict
Plot
Misc
100
The time, place and weather
Setting
100
When the story is told from the point of view of a character within the story.
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
True. A short story is fiction
200
How the conflict is solved
Resolution
200
The story is told from the perspective of an outside observer. The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters
Third person omniscient
200
Define Man vs. Man conflict
Human vs. Human
200
The highest emotional point in the story
Climax
200
When the events of the story are told in the order that they happened.
Chronological order, or Plot.
300
How the story is told
Point of view
300
The point of view that uses the pronouns you, and your
Second Person
300
What is Man vs. Self?
Internal conflict, struggle within oneself
300
Events leading to the climax
What is rising action?
300
Besides when the story takes place, what is another characteristic of setting?
When the story takes place, time period, weather.
400
The lesson learned in the story
Theme
400
The narrator doesn't know the thoughts and feelings of any characters.
Third person objective
400
What is Man vs. Nature?
When there is an external struggle with a environmental force.
400
the introduction of the characters and situation
What is exposition?
400
What is theme? Give an example of a theme.
The central message of the story, lesson learned. Example: What goes around comes around.
500
What are four ways to describe a character?
Physical characteristics, thoughts, feelings, gestures, actions
500
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third person limited
500
What is man vs. society?
An external conflict when one person is facing another group of people who want them to change.
500
The conflict is solved in what part of the story?
Resolution
500
In Rapunzel, what is one example of how setting effected the characters in the story?
The bushes poked out the eyes of the prince, the desert isolated Rapunzel from everyone else, the tower kept her away and safe from the outside world.
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