Narrative Elements 1
The when and where a story takes place.
What is setting?
The person or voice telling a story.
What is a narrator?
The feeling(s) created in the reader.
What is mood?
What are the five ways an author can start a narrative
story?
sound, action, dialogue, description and thought
The basic sequence of events of the story.
What is plot?
The four different points of view.
What is first person, second person, third person limited, and third person omniscient?
The struggle within a character's mind or heart.
What is internal conflict?
The author gives hints or clues what is going to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadow?
The turning point of the story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak.
What is the climax?
To make the story more interesting the author incorporates this in the rising action and climax? (s).
What is suspense?
The attitude the author conveys about a subject or audience through his/her diction.
What is tone?
The leading character or one of the major characters within a story.
What is a protagonist?
The universal moral or lesson about life or humanity.
What is theme?
A character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
The struggle between two characters or between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
Using information the author gives in a story or article along with what the reader already know to come up with an answer. When the author doesn't specifically tell the answer the reader has to what?
What is inference?
An object, person, or event that represents not only itself, but a bigger and more significant idea.
What is symbolism?
Irony is something the reader doesn't expected to happen . What are the three types of irony?
What is situational, verbal and dramatic?
The vantage point from which a story is told; it is the stance from which the action and events of the story unfold.
What is point of view?
What are the four methods of characterization an author uses to bring the character to life.
What other characters reactions, physical description, narrator's comments and characters actions