STORY ELEMENTS DEFINITIONS - PC\|MAC
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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