Story Elements
This is when and where the story takes place.
What is setting?
What do you call a character who changes throughout a story?
What is a dynamic character?
mood
What is the feeling that you get from reading a book or story.
The message the author wants the reader to keep.
What is the theme?
John doesn't want to go to school because of his fear of the desegregation protesters.
What is the story's internal conflict?
The sequence of events throughout which the conflict of the story is introduced, developed, and resolved.
What is the plot
John's character in "The First Day of School"
What is a dynamic character?
The resolution of a story falls after this part of the plot analysis.
What is the falling action - down the hill?
the theme in "The First Day of School"
What is "to 'show up' and be brave because those before us took big chances and made great sacrifices."
stealthily
What is to do something quietly and secretly?
A person, animal, or object that plays an important role in the plot.
What are the characters?
point of view
What is the position from which the story is told.
This is the point in the story with the highest level of interest-most exciting
What is the climax?
dialogue
What are words spoken by a character in a story punctuated with quotation marks (“ “)
The presence of the National Guard, the celebratory crowd the night before, and the religious leaders escorting the children to school.
What is the historical setting of the story?
The most exciting part of the story.
What is climax?
This is the main character in the story-usually the good guy
Who is the protagonist?
the narrator
What is a person, or being, telling the story.
a principle
What is an absolute truth or a rule to live by.
The main message or lesson of the story. It is what the author wants you to keep.
What is the theme?
This is the character opposing the main character-usually the "bad guy"
Who is the antagonist?
These five things make up the plot of a fiction story.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
tone
What is the author’s attitude toward the story or subject?
to linger
What is to leave slowly and reluctantly, not wanting to go?