Literary Elements

The message the writer wishes to convey to the reader

• theme

• point-of-view

• first-person

• 3rd person omniscient

Uses the pronouns I, me, my, and we

• 1st person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person limited

• 2nd person

The central or main character in the story

• protagonist

• antagonist

• 1st person

• 3rd person omniscient

A feeling of growing tension and excitement felt by the reader

• suspense

• climax

• resolution

• foreshadowing

Where suspense builds- events that occur as the characters try to resolve the conflict

• rising action

• suspense

• climax

• resolution

The time and place in which the events occur includes location, season, time of day, historical moment (past, present, or future)

• setting

• theme

• point-of-view

• first-person

The beginning of a story where the main characters are introduced, the setting is revealed, and the conflict is established

• exposition

• rising action

• suspense

• climax

The narrator tells the story but does not have access to all of the characters thoughts and actions

• 3rd person limited

• 2nd person

• dialogue

• point-of-view

Conversation between characters

• dialogue

• theme

• setting

• flashback

Using clues that point to events that will occur later in the plot

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• setting

• theme