Elements of Poetry/Play/Prose

A complete written thought with a subject and predicate. These combine to make paragraphs.

• line

• sentence

• paragraph

• dialogue

This is made up of related sentences. Many of these together make a chapter.

• paragraph

• sentence

• chapter

• plot

A section of a book. Sometimes longer books are divided into these with titles.

• sentences

• paragraphs

• themes

• chapters

People, animals or other objects in a story.

• dialogue

• chapters

• props

• characters

This is what the characters say in a story.

• plot

• conflict

• point of view

• dialogue

Tells the story's place AND time.

• characters

• dialogue

• theme

• setting

This is the sequence of events from the story's beginning to its end.

• theme

• setting

• plot

• conflict

This is the problem in the story. It happens when one or more characters want something, but something else gets in the way.

• conflict

• plot

• setting

• theme

Who is telling the story. The first person is a character in the story, the third person is a narrator (not in the story).

• theme

• point of view

• plot

• conflict

The central message or lesson the author is trying to convey (get across) through the story.

• conflict

• plot

• point of view

• theme