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Narrative Elements
Dialogue
Story Arc
Figurative Language
Key Terms
100
The time and place where the events of a story take place.
What is the setting
100

What is Dialogue?

Dialogue is defined as a conversation held between two or more characters. It makes the story real and convincing as it exposes the characters thoughts and feelings.

100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax
100
A type of speech or writing that breaks away from the literal meaning in order to create a special effect or meaning.
What is figurative language
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 process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is character development
200
List at least two functions of a dialogue.

  • To reveal conflict

  • Characterization

  • To move the plot forward to logical solution

  • To provide information

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 central struggle or tension within a narrative that shapes the plot and drives the action forward.
What is conflict
300

Short, little phrases in dialogue that identify the speaker.

Dialogue tags

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 emotional voice that an author brings to a narrative.
What is the tone
400
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view
400

List at least four rules of dialogue writing.

  • You MUST indent for your dialogues

  • EACH speaker goes in a different line

  • ONLY what is said by the individual goes in quotation marks.

  • Punctuation goes inside the quotation marks

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

What goes inside the quotations marks?

ONLY what the character say

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

an instance that takes place before the story begins that interrupts the chronological order of the plot in order to provide context or information that is integral to the text

What is a Flashback