Story Elements 1
The sequence of the events that happen in a story.
What is the plot?
The resolution of the conflict.
What is the climax of the story?
the dictionary
Where do you find the meaning of a word?
a brief statement or restatement of main points of a story usually including the beginning, middle, and end of a piece of work.
What is a summary?
The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective
What is point of view
the reason behind a character's behaviors and actions in a given scene or throughout a story.
What is character motivation?
hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meanings of new or unfamiliar words. .
What are context clues?
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
written conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks
What is dialogue?
Time, place, duration of the story.
What is the setting?
the reason behind a character's behaviors and actions in a given scene or throughout a story.
What is character motivation?
any action (taking notes) to enhance the reader's understanding of, recall of, and reaction to the text.
What is annotating?
a series of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What elements are included in the plot of a story?
where the author sets up the story. It includes three of the story elements: characters, setting, and the main conflict.
What is the Exposition of a story?
where the conflict has been resolved
What is the resolution of a story?
The main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
when the narrator telling the story is also a character in the story and uses pronouns such as I and me to share his personal view of other characters and events in the story.
What is 1st person point of view?
It is the final part of a story, where the final components are fully explained to the reader and the plot strands resolved so that there are no additional questions about the outcome that has occurred.
What is the denouement in a story?
when you are writing something in your own words that still expresses the original idea.
What is paraphrasing?
the opposite of the protagonist, or main character. ... It's just the opponent of the main character, or someone who gets in their way.
What is an antagonist?