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Basic Elements
Plot
Conflict
Point of View
Stylistic Devices
100
One of the people or animals in a story.
What is a character?
100

This introduces characters and settings while supplying background and setting the tone.

What is Exposition?

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

This introduces complications (problems) which build suspense and is when the plot "thickens."

What is Rising Action?

200
A problem within a character's own mind..
What is a Problem Against Self?
200
One of the characters in the story is telling the story. (I, me)
What is First-Person Point of View?
200
The feeling a piece of literature creates in a reader.
What is Mood?
300
The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
What is the Protagonist?
300

This is the story's turning point and the moment when the suspense reaches its peak.

What is Climax?

300
A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.
What is a Person Against Society?
300
You are part of the story because you are a character in the story. (you, your)
What is Second-Person Point of View?
300

The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature.

What is Tone?

400
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is the Setting?
400

This is when the story begins to slow down and work towards its end, tying up loose ends of the plot.

What is the Falling Action?

400
A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.
What is a Person Against 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
A series of reoccurring details that have symbolic importance in the story.


What is Motif?

500
The action that makes up the story, following a plan called the plot line.
What is the Plot?
500

This is when conflicts are resolved, and the story concludes.

What is the Resolution?

500
A problem or struggle that appears to be 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

Refers to a brief and often indirect reference to another work of art, person, place, or object.

What is Allusion?