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Narrative Elements
Conflict
Story Arc
Figurative Language
Key Terms
100
The time and place where the events of a story take place.
What is the setting
100
A struggle between opposing forces

What is conflict

100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax
100

Creating a word that mimics a sound

What is onomatopoeia

100
The term we use to describe the main character or principle actor in a narrative, the person with whom the reader most closely relates.
What is the protagonist
200
The people in a story

What are characters

200

The main character of a story struggles against an animal or disaster in the world.

What is Person vs. Nature

200
The first part of a story arc where the setting is established and characters are introduced.
What is the exposition
200
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile
200
A character in a narrative who is opposed to the protagonist or protagonists; a villain.
What is the antagonist
300

The emotional voice an author brings to a piece of writing

What is tone

300

The main character in the story has a conflict with one other character

What is Person vs. Person

300
The point in the story arc where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.
What is the rising action
300
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things that does not use the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor
300

The emotions surrounding a word, NOT its dictionary definition

What is the connotation

400
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view
400

The main character is struggling against a community or their surroundings as a whole.

What is Person vs. Society

400
The point in the story arc where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
What is the falling action
400
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. (Example: "The wind whispered through the window.")
What is personification
400
The emotions that a narrative makes a reader feel.
What is the mood
500
A main idea or message that is presented by the author in various ways throughout a narrative.
What is theme
500
A conflict that occurs within a person

What is an internal conflict

500
The final step in the story arc in which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the story concludes.
What is the resolution or denouement
500
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is literally true.
What is hyperbole
500

The use of things like figurative language and sensory details to make reading more interesting.

What is descriptive language