The Who
One of the people or animals in a story. They move a story's plot forward.
What is a character?
The action or events that make up the story.
What is Plot?
The challenge or problem between opposing forces that drives the action of the story.
What is Conflict?
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
The underlying message or moral of the story.
What is Theme?
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
The turning point of the story when suspense reaches its peak.
What is Climax?
A type of conflict taking place between characters in the story.
What is Person vs. Person?
Our current setting.
What is a Classroom?
This feeling a piece of literature creates in the reader and how the writer evokes it.
What is Tone?
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
The introduction of complications which build suspense. This is when the plot thickens.
What is Rising Action?
A type of conflict taking place between a character in the story and an element of nature.
What is Person vs. Nature?
The setting in which Cinderella loses her glass slipper.
What is The Ball?
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
The angle by which a story is told. This depends on the narrator.
What is Point of View?
This ties up loose ends of a story and occurs after the climax.
What is Resolution?
A type of conflict taking place within a character's own mind.
What is Person vs. Self?
What is Characteristics?
When an author's purpose is to keep you interested in reading the text.
What is to Entertain?
A narrative technique in which the writer has two or more character convey important information to the reader by speaking directly to one another.
What is Illustration?
A type of conflict taking place between characters in the story and a group, community or culture.
What is Person vs. Society?
Important background information and introduction.
What is Exposition?
When an author's purpose is to convince you to do something or think a certain way.
What is to Persuade?