STORY ELEMENTS DEFINITIONS



STORY ELEMENTS DEFINITIONS

(Test Friday November 7, 2008)

1. Setting – the time and place of a story or play.

2. Character – a person in the story.

3. Plot – the series of related events in the story

Elements of the Plot (4-8)

4. Exposition – The opening or the 1st part of the plot, Here the author describes the setting, introduces the characters, and gives background information.

5. Rising Action – the part in which the author describes the conflict or the problem in the story.

6. Climax – the turning point in the story, the part where the problem is at its worse.

7. Falling Action – the part where the author describes how the problem is solved.

8. Resolution - Comes after the falling action and it brings the story to a satisfactory end.

9. Antagonist – the opponent or rival of the hero in the story.

10. Protagonist – the central character in the story, novel, or play.

11. Foreshadowing – the use of clues to hint at what will occur later in the story.

12. Flashback – a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot.

13. Theme – the message or meaning in a story, poem, or play.

14. Mood – the feeling the reader gets while reading the story.

15. Tone – The attitude a writer takes towards the audience, subject or character.

16. Narrator –the person telling the story.

17. 1st person point of view – The narrator tells the story from his own point of view saying, “I did this or I did that.”

18. 2nd Person Point of View - The book or story addresses the reader as if the reader is an active character in the book. For Example: You are walking down the street.

19. 3rd Person Limited – The narrator is outside the story, and sees the events through the eyes of only one character.

20. 3rd Person All Knowing – The narrator is not one of the characters in the story, but tells the emotions, motives, and actions of ALL the characters in the story.

21. Suspense – The I\uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in the story.

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