Also called the EXPOSITION, this part of a narrative gives you your first glimpse of the setting and characters.
What is the INTRODUCTION?
100
This term refers to the teller of a story.
What is the NARRATOR?
100
Also known as the main character, this person is the focus of the narrative.
What is the PROTAGONIST?
100
This type of conflict is the most common in literature and involved two main characters.
What is MAN v MAN?
100
The events in a story in the order in which they occur.
What is the PLOT?
200
This part of a narrative is a series of events in which the conflict and characters are developed.
What is the RISING ACTION?
200
The narrator of a story is also a character in the story.
What is a FIRST PERSON NARRATOR?
200
Sometimes referred to as the villain, this person is in direct conflict with the main character of a story.
What is the ANTAGONIST?
200
This conflict occurs between a character and the forces of the culture around him.
What is Man v. SOCIETY?
200
The time and place of a story.
What is the SETTING?
300
This event in a story determines the outcome and resolution of the conflict.
What is the climax.
300
The narrator of a story is not a character in the story but knows everything that goes--even when events occur at the same time in different locations.
What is a THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT NARRATOR?
300
These characters serve different purposes in a story. While they are not main characters they do help us understand the main characters and they help create the events of a story.
What are MINOR CHARACTERS?
300
These conflicts often occur in wilderness adventure stories.
What is MAN v NATURE or MAN v. ANIMAL?
300
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is the POINT OF VIEW?
400
This terms literally means "the unraveling." It is the tying up of the loose ends at the end of a short story.
What is the DENOUEMENT?
400
The narrator of a story is not a character in the story. This narrator shows us the workings of one character's mind and reveals the story from that characters perspective.
What is a THIRD PERSON LIMITED NARRATOR?
400
This character can be a major or minor character. His/or Her purpose is to provide a contrast to the PROTAGNOIST and thereby reveal his character.
What is a foil?
400
This term refers to story with an "internal" conflict.
What is Man v. Himself?
400
The major tension around which the story revolves.
What is the conflict.
500
This part of the narrative resolves the major conflict in as novel well as any significant subplots. It is followed by the CONCLUSION.
What is the FALLING ACTION?
500
This narrative reveals the ongoing, sometimes random thoughts of one character in the story.
What is STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS narration?
500
The process of revealing a character through his thoughts, words, deed, and the thoughts of others.
What is CHARACTERIZATION?
500
While the Greeks didn't define this one, it is a major conflict in science fiction stories.
What is Man v. Technology?
500
More general than a moral, this is a universal statement about life that a story reveals.