Elements of Fiction
Features of Fiction
Understanding Fiction
Genres
Drama and Poetry
More Vocabulary
100

Sets the story in motion. Contains Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.

What is Plot?

100

The people, animals or things in the story that have thoughts and emotions.

What are Characters?

100

The reason an author writes a story. Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, or Describe

What is the Author's Purpose?

100

Literary stories that have fictional characters and settings?

What is Fiction?

100

How a play is divided up into parts.

What is Acts?

100

Writing technique that poets use to make words have sounds. Ex. rhyme and onomatopoeia.

What is Sound Devices?

200

The problems that the characters face in the story. Presented in the beginning of the story.

What is Conflict?

200

Where the story takes place, including the time period. For Ex: forests, castles, past or future.

What is the setting?

200

Drawing a conclusion using the evidence from the text and your own knowledge.

What is Inference?

200

Stories that feature magical elements, mythical creatures, or imaginary worlds. 

What is Fantasy?

200

The group of lines in a poem.

What is Stanzas?

200

Comparing two unlike things using the words like and as. Ex. She's as pretty as a rose.

What is Simile?

300

How the characters resolve their problems in the story.

What is the Resolution?

300

The message the author wants the reader to take from the story. Can be moral or lesson.

What is the Theme?

300

A shortened version of the story focusing on the main parts retold in your own words.

What is Summary?

300

Stories focused on solving a crime or puzzle, often with suspenseful plots.

What is Mystery?

300

A story told as a performance with actors portraying characters acting out the story.

What is Drama?

300

Story told from the characters point of view.

What is First Person?

400

The turning point of the story, usually the most exciting or surprising part of the story.

What is the Climax?

400

The physical and emotional features of a character in a story.

Character Traits

400

The author's style of writing. The author's use of language, tone, voice and mood in their writing.

What is Author's Craft?

400

Stories that explore the impact of science and technology on society, often set in the future. 

What is Science Fiction?
400

Type of writing that does not follow any structure or rules and uses figurative language.

What is Poetry?

400

Comparing two unlike things not using like or as. Ex: She is my sunshine.

What is Metaphor?

500

The events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.

What is Falling Action?

500

The thoughts and emotions a character has in a story.

What are Character Actions?

500

Language that is meaningful but not literal. Examples include similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia's.

What is figurative language?

500

Stories that are set in the past and may include real historical events or figures.

What is Historical Fiction?

500

Directions that are only visible to the actors that tell them how to act and where to move in the play.

What is Stage Directions?

500

The person who tells the story.

What is Narrator?

600

The main parts of the story which includes problem and is usually set up as 3-4 main events.

What is Rising Action?

600

The lesson or moral that the author wants the reader to learn from the text.

What is the message?

600

Restating the events of a story including the beginning, middle, and end.

What is Retell?

600

Folktales, legends, fables, and fairy tales passed down through generations. 

What is Traditional Literature?

600

The settings within a drama, that shows where the drama takes place.

What is Scenes?

600

Giving a non-human object or animal human like qualities.

What is Personification?

700

Occurs at the beginning and introduces the main character, setting, and basic situations needed to understand the story.

What is Exposition?

700

Writing that uses the five senses to help create an image for the reader.

What is Imagery?

700

Writing that explains in detail and uses sensory language to help create an image in the reader's mind.

What is Description?
700

Stories that could plausibly happen in the real world, with believable characters and settings. 

What is Realistic Fiction?

700

The spoken lines and actor says in a drama.

What is dialogue?

700

Story told from an all-knowing narrator's point of view.

What is Third Person?