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!
True or False. There is only one main character in a story?
False. There can be stories with more than one main character.
A place in a story
What is a setting?
There is only one setting in every story
FALSE
Settings DO change in stories almost all the time!
What story element describes something that goes wrong in a story
The problem
Something that happens in a story
What is an event?
Stories have only 2 main events, the beginning and the end.
FALSE
Stories have a beginning, middle, AND end!
What story element describes the outcome of the problem
The solution.
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!
False. Some stories are about real things and they are called non-fiction. Some stories are fake and they are called fiction.