Basic Elements
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
A problem between characters.
What is Person vs. Person?
The angle by which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.
What is Point of View?
The message about life is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is exposition?
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
A problem within a character's own mind..
What is a Problem vs. Self?
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me)
What is First-Person Point of View?
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is rising action?
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
A problem between a character and community, school, the Law, or the government.
What is a Person vs. Society?
You are part of the story because you are a character in the story. (you, your)
What is Second-Person Point of View?
Using sensory details to appeal to your five senses.
What is imager?
This is the turning point of the story and the moment when the suspense reaches its peak which results in a change for the main character.
What is climax?
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.
What is a Person Against Nature?
With this point of view, you get full insight into only one character's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
What is first person?
The feeling that the reader gets while reading a story.
What is mood?
This occurs after the climax of the story, when the story starts to come to a close.
What is the falling action?
Information about a character's speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks.
What is characterization/traits?
A problem or struggle between a character and an advancement by man.
What is a Person vs. Technology?
With this point of view, you get insight into more than 1 character's thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
What is third person?
The serious, funny, or sarcastic attitude or feeling revealed by the characters, word choice, and general writing style in literature.
What is Tone?
This resolves the conflict and the story comes to a reasonable end.
What is the resolution?