Lit Elements # 1
The protagonist of the story is...
What is the main character?
The sequence of events in a story...
What is plot?
Refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
The author of the story introduces the setting, the main character, and the initial conflict.
What is the exposition?
Some types of characters are...
What are static, dynamic, confidante, stock, foil, round, villain, and archetypal?
A character or situation opposing the main character...
What is the antagonist?
The five stages of the plot diagram are...
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
The author's purpose is...
What is the intention the author displays in their written work?
The moment when the conflict develops in a story.
What is rising action?
Imagery relates to...
What are the five senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch)?
The narrative voice through which an author tells a story...
What is point of view?
The writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work.
What is tone?
The intentions of the author to write are...
The turning point or the most intense moment of a story.
What is the climax?
Some of the words related to tone are...
What are positive (energetic, enthusiastic, humorous, illuminating, optimistic, respectful) and negative (gloomy, dark, elegiac, pessimistic, strident, tense)?
The narrator relates only the characters' thoughts, feelings, and knowledge about various situations and the other characters.
What is third-person point of view limited?
Mood is...
What is the atmosphere that the reader gets from a story through setting, word choice, and imagery?
Genre is...
What is a distinctive type or category of literary composition?
The moment when the story comes to an end.
What is falling action?
A struggle between two opposing forces...
What is conflict?
The narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.
What is third-person point of view omniscient?
Theme is...
What is the main idea or underlying meaning the writer explores in their literary work?
The types of genre are...
What is fiction (realistic fiction, historical fiction, fairy tale, mystery, fantasy, fable, science fiction) and non-fiction (biography, autobiography, essay, speech)?
The conflict of the story has been resolved and the reader learns a lesson.
What is the resolution?
The different types of conflict are...
man vs man, man vs self, man vs nature, man vs technology, man vs god or a deity, man vs society, man vs supernatural.