Basic Elements
A character that changes throughout a story.
What is character development?
A problem between two or more characters.
What is Person vs. Person?
The way a story is told. It depends on the narrator, or person telling the story.
What is Point of View?
The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story.
What is theme?
When two things are compared using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The place and time frame in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
A problem within a character's own mind.
What is Person vs. Self?
The person that is telling the story.
What is a narrator?
A story or text that references another piece of media, such as a short story making a reference to the Bible.
What is an allusion?
Two things being compared to each other.
What is metaphor?
How a character is described, such as how they look and act.
What is characterization?
A problem between a character and society, school, the Law, or some tradition.
What is Person vs. Society?
When a story goes back in time to provide extra details or context an event or character.
What is a flashback?
The five senses described in great detail to create imagery.
What is sensory details?
An inanimate object is given humanlike characteristics.
What is personification?
What is irony?
A problem between a character and some element of nature - a blizzard, a hurricane, a mountain climb, etc.
What is Person vs. Nature?
When a story gives hints to an event that happens in the future or later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The attitude or feeling that comes from the writer of a story.
What is tone?
Detailed descriptions of a place, character, object, or scene.
What is imagery?
A object or color that is supposed to represent a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
A man is falsely accused of a crime. He is arrested for the crime because of his skin color. Many years later, they find evidence that he did not commit the crime.
What is Person vs. Society?
A point of view that allows the narrator to share the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters, using pronouns like she/he/they. (all, everything)
What is Third-Person Omniscient?
The most exciting or dramatic part of the story.
What is climax?
A saying that has a different meaning than what is said, like "I woke up on the wrong side of the bed."
What is an idiom?