Elements of Fiction
Plot Diagram
Vocabulary
Point of View/Author's Purpose
Figurative Language
100
People, animals, or imaginary creatures that take part in the action of the story.
What is What are The characters of a story?
100
Part where the story becomes more complex.
What is the rising action?
100
The struggle between a character and something outside the character.
What is external conflict?
100
The character is telling the story. Pronouns you will see are "I, Me, Us, We".
What is first person point of view?
100

uses like or as to compare 

what is a simile

200
Writing that comes from an authors imagination.
What is Fiction?
200
The turning point when the action reaches a peak and the outcome of the conflict is decided.
What is the climax?
200
The conflict is within the characters mind.
What is internal conflict?
200
The narrator is telling the story. You will see"they, he, she, him, her, them" as pronouns.
What is 3rd person point of view?
200

does NOT use like or as to compare 

what is a metaphor
300

what the story is about 

what is main idea

300
Sets the stage for the story. Characters are introduced, the setting is described , and the conflict begins to unfold.
What is the exposition?
300
The main character in a work of literature. The hero.
What is the protagonist?
300

The view point from which a story is told.

What is the point of view?

300

giving human like characteristics to something that is nonliving

what is personification

400
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
the events that follow the climax and bring us to the resolution. The outcome of the sequence of events.
What is falling action?
400
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
400

why the author chose to write the selection

What is Author's Purpose

400

an exaggeration

what is hyperbole

500

It is the time and place at which the events of the story happen.

What is the setting?

500
Loose ends are tied up.
What is the resolution?
500
The character that is against (or opposes) the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
500

Persuade, entertain, inform, explain, and describe

What are types of author's purpose

500

boom, splat, and swoosh are all examples of? 

what is an onomatopoeia