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The person who wrote the story.
Author
The main people or animals in the story.
Characters
The hero or good person in the story.
Protagonist
The villain or bad person in the story.
Antagonist
The sequence of events in the story (what happened 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
Plot
The reason the author wrote the story (inform, persuade, entertain, caution, etc.)
Author's Purpose
Characters who are the opposite of each other.
Character Foils
How the story begins (it usually describes the characters, the setting, or the backstory).
Exposition
Important events at the beginning of the story that lead to the development of the problem.
Rising Action
The highest point of suspense or interest in the story (the OMG moment)
Climax
What the reader thinks is going to happen in the story based on context clues.
Prediction/Inference
The good and bad features which describe a character in the story.
Character Traits
Important events towards the conclusion of the story that lead to the closing of the problem.
Falling Action
How the story ends (it usually tells us how the conflict was solved)
Resolution
The problem in the story.
Conflict
A problem you might have which you cannot control (another person, your community, nature, technology, fate, or the supernatural)
External Conflict
A problem you might have which you can control (your emotions, moral beliefs, religious stance, political views, love life, and your self-image).
Internal Conflict
Where the story takes place.
Setting
A word or phrase that summarizes what the main topic or message of the story was.
Theme
The overall life lesson the reader is supposed to learn after reading the story.
Moral
A detailed account of what the whole story was about.
Summary
A restatement of the summary of a text or passage using simplified words.
Paraphrase
A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word.
Synonyms
A word opposite in meaning to another
Antonyms
The beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Plot