Story Elements 1
The main character in a story. The action or events of the story center mostly around this character.
What is the protagonist?
The overall atmosphere or feeling of a story.
What is mood?
The series or sequence of events that make up a story. It is what happens in a story.
What is the plot?
Captain Hook, Plankton, Voldemort, and the Evil Queen are all villains that represent this type of character.
What is an antagonist?
The final point of a story. The conflict is resolved and the story is brought to close.
What is the resolution?
This is the point in the story that creates the greatest suspense or interest.
What is the climax?
This type of character changes or evolves throughout the story.
What is a Dynamic Character?
A character that opposes the main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is a conflict?
When a Character struggles within his/her own mind.
What is an internal conflict?
The way that the author reveals the personality of a character. (Their values, feelings, goals, etc.)
What is characterization?
The word "temporal" also means
What is time?
A way to categorize things like types of stories that have similar characteristics.
What is genre?
The main idea of a story, it threads throughout the entire story. It is usually a message that the author wants to get across to the reader.
What is the theme?
When a character struggles with an outside force such as another character, society, or nature.
What is an external conflict?
A person or animal in a story.
What is a character?
The part of the story that reveals the conflict and begins the action of the story as it moves toward the climax.
What is the inciting incident?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
Events leading away from the climax toward the resolution
What is falling action?
Realistic fiction that includes fantasy or mythical elements; often present in modern Latin American literature
What is magical realism?