Story Elements
This is the time, place and weather of a story.
What is setting?
This is when the story is told directly from the point of view of a character within the story.
What is first person?
Define conflict.
What is the struggle between 2 opposing forces?
Define plot.
What is the events that happen in the story?
This is the conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
This is the perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
This is the point of view that uses the pronouns 'he', 'she', and 'they'.
What is third person POV?
Identify the two types of conflict.
What is external conflict and internal conflict?
This is the highest emotional point or intense moment in the story.
What is the climax?
This is a text structure that tells the story events in the order that they happened.
What is sequential order?
This is the life lesson that develops throughout the story.
What is the theme?
This is the point of view that uses the pronouns 'you' and 'we'.
What is second person POV?
This is the struggle that occurs within the heart and mind of the character.
What is internal conflict?
This is the events leading to the climax.
What is rising action?
This is a writing technique that grabs the readers' attention such as a flashback, a flash forward, or an intense scene.
What is a hook?
This is the outcome of the conflict.
What is the resolution?
This is when the story is told from the perspective of an outsider observer.
What is 3rd person Objective POV?
This is a conflict that occurs outside of the character.
What is external conflict?
This is the part of the narrative arc that includes the introduction of the characters and situation.
What is exposition?
This is a literary device that provides hints at things that will happen later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
This is the process of developing the personalities of characters within a story.
What is characterization?
This is the 3rd person POV that provides the thoughts of only some characters .
What is 3rd person limited omniscient POV?
Name 3 types of external conflict.
What is man vs man, man vs, nature, and man vs society
This is the transformation or inner journey of a character throughout a story.
What is the character arc?
This is a literary device that draws readers into a story through the use of comparisons, exaggerations, culturally understood expressions, etc.
What is figurative language?