Story Elements

Plot is:

•  Hint/clue about what might happen later in the story

•  A feeling of excitement of tension

• Describes the events happening within a story

• A person (or animal) in a story

The setting of a story is:

• Time and place where the action occurs

• Character changes by the end of the story

• Interrupt the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past (or future)

• Story is written the order the events actually occurred

What is a character?

• A person (or animal) in a story

• When a story leaves the reader in suspense 

• A feeling of excitement of tension

• Story is written the order the events actually occurred

Which part of the plot is the most exciting, “highest” point of the story?

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Climax

Coyote cannot beat Rabbit in a race would be an example of a ________ in the story.

• Setting

• Solution

• Problem

• Characters

beginning of the story, includes the problem/goal, setting, and characters

• resolution

• exposition

• climax

• theme

This gives what is the story about and gives you interest to read the story more.

• SETTING

• PLOT

• TITLE

• CHARACTERS

What type of character is seen as the main character or focus of the story?

• Subordinate

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Static

What type of characters remain exactly the same at the end as they were in the beginning?

• Antagonist

• Dynamic

• Protagonist

• Static

The point from which a writer tells a story is called?

• Plot

• Conflict

• Point of View

• Theme