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Basic Elements
Conflict
Point of View
Stylistic Devices
Plot Line
100
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
100
A problem between characters.
What is Person Against Person?
100
The angle by which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.
What is Point of View?
100
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
What is Theme?
100

The plan of action that makes up a story.

What is Plot Line?

200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200

A problem within a character's own mind..

What is a Man v. Self/ Internal Conflict?

200

One of the characters in the story is telling the story. 

What is First-Person Point of View?

200
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
200
This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.
What is Exposition?
300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300

A problem between a character and the world in which they live?

What is a Man v. Society?

300

What we call the person relaying the events of the plot with the reader

What is Narrator?

300

Strong words that an author uses, often to create a setting

What is Diction?

300
This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."
What is Rising Action?
400

The place,time frame and social structure in which a story takes place.

What is the Setting?

400

A problem between a character and the elements/weather around her?

What is a Man v. Nature?

400
Third-Person point of view allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters. (all, everything)
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
400
The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.
What is Tone?
400
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. This sometimes occurs at the end of the story, without being followed by the falling action.
What is the Climax?
500

The tension that keeps our attention between one moment and another in a story

What is Suspense?

500

Daily Double!!!!


A problem or struggle that appears to be predestined; it is well beyond a character's control.

What is a Person Against Fate (God)?

500
Third-Person point of view that allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
What is Third-Person Limited Omniscient?
500

The way that a writer writes. It can also be described as a “voice” that readers listen to when they read the work of a writer.


What is Style?

500
This occurs after the climax of the story, resolves conflict and ties up loose ends of the story.
What is the Falling Action/Resolution?