POV
By Definition
Elements of a Story
Conflict
Parts of a Plot
100

The story is told by the narrator who addresses the reader. 

Point of View- Second Person

100

The story is told by a narrator who sees all of the actions. This person may be a character in the story. 

Point of View- Third Person

100

When and where the a story takes place. 

Setting

100

This kind of conflict takes place inside a person's mind. 

Internal Conflict

100

What part of the plot is the turning point of the story where it is "make or break" for the Protagonist?

The Climax

200

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim’s warmth but finding only the rough canvas cover of the mattress."- The Hunger Games

First Person

200

The central message or "moral of the story"

Theme

200

A person, animal, being, creature or thing represented in a story. 

Character

200

This takes place when a person or a group struggles against another person, group, or non human force. 

External Conflict

200

What part of the plot do the characters, setting, and background begin to be revealed?

The Exposition

300

"The monster turned up just after midnight. As they do. Connor was awake when it came. He’d had a nightmare. Well, not a nightmare. The nightmare. The one he’d been having a lot lately."- A Monster Calls

Third Person

300

Clear center of the story; all events are important to this character AND the opposition or "enemy" of the main character. 

(Must provide 2 pairs of real examples for the points)

Protagonist and Antagonist 

300

It is the sequence of events in a story or a play. 

Plot

300

In this classic story, Little Red Riding Hood, is set in conflict with the Big Bad Wolf, who wants to eat her. The whole plot of the story centers around the lengths the wolf is prepared to go to in order to achieve his aim, and how Little Red Riding Hood can manage to escape him.

Character vs Character
300

What part of the plot does the resolution begin to fall into place?

Falling Action

400

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of stuff, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."- The Catcher in the Rye

Second Person

400

When the narrator describes the action of events through the eyes of a single character; the readers only see what the character sees, feels, or thinks.

Point of View- Third Person Limited

400

The struggle between opposing forces. The main character must fight against some force or make an important decision. 

Conflict

400

The kind of conflict where a character struggles with one's own soul, physical limitations, choices, etc. 

Internal conflict- Character vs Self

400

What is the part of the plot where the events in the story become complicated; where the conflict is revealed?

The Rising Action

500

"It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. An expedition, I should say, which I will undertake alone, in the comfort of Mr Farraday’s Ford; an expedition which, as I foresee it, will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country, and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days. The idea of such a journey came about, I should point out, from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been dusting the portraits in the library."- Remains of the Day

First person

500

When the narrator can enter into the character’s consciousness, describe their motives, feelings, actions, and predict the events to likely happen.

Point of View- Third Person Omniscient 

500

The angle in which the story is told. 

Point of View

500

A dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic part of North America, where an advanced metropolis controls the rest of the nation. In this world, the annual Hunger Games takes place each year in which a boy and girl from each of the districts is chosen to take part in a televised battle to the death.

Character vs Society

500

What part of the plot has the final outcome of the events of the story?

The Resolution