Story Elements
A person in a story
What is a character?
Nothing happens to a character in a story.
FALSE
Events happen to the characters, especially the main character!
Stories that are fake
What is Fiction?
A place in a story
What is a setting?
A plot includes all of the events that happen in a story
True
It's the sequence of events that happen in the story that includes the introduction of characters in the beginning, the problem in the middle, and the solution at the end.
Stories have only 2 main events, the beginning and the end.
FALSE
Stories have a beginning, middle, AND end!
Important things that happens in a story
What is an event?
Retelling a story is summarizing a story's main events and details in your own words.
True.
When you retell a story you are able to show that a story has been understood.
Category where a book belongs to
What is a genre?
Events in a story happen to what/who
What is the character?
Characters in a story are changed because of the events that happen to them
TRUE
All characters learn something new, or are changed in some way because of the events that happen to them, usually for the better!
In a fiction story, the final act or the conclusion of a story where the problem is solve
What is a solution or resolution
Something betweeen one or more characters that must be solved by the end of the story
What is the conflict or problem?
There is only one setting in every story
FALSE
Settings DO change in stories almost all the time!
Stories that give true information or facts.
What is Non-Fiction?