Story Elements

Story Elements

Today we will talk about the elements of a story.

You need your Term II Booklets / notebooks to take notes.

Open Ended

What makes a story good?

Open Ended

What are the 5 basic elements of a story?

Let's take a closer look at five basic elements of any story.

Take notes in your Term II Booklet page 201. (Week Three Notes)

1. Can you give some examples of setting?

2. Do you remember the main characters in ''There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom''?

3. Conflict is the problem the main character experiences.

4. Theme is the BIG idea of the story.

5. Plot is the sequence of important events that happen in the story from beginning, middle and end.

It's time to practice!

Read the questions carefully and choose / write the correct story element described.

Multiple Choice

People, animals, or other creatures in a story are ......

• setting

• conflict

• characters

Multiple Choice

What is the central idea or message of a story?

• conflict

• theme

Fill in the Blank

The setting of a story describes where and _____ the action takes place.

Multiple Choice

The problems the characters face in the story.

• conflict

• setting

Multiple Select

Only people can be characters in a story.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.

• theme

• setting

• plot

Multiple Choice

Cinderella, the Prince, and the Stepmother are considered which story element?

• setting

• theme

• characters

Multiple Select

The theme is a lesson learned; the moral of the story.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The rising and falling action that builds tension in a text is called the _______.

• problem

• plot

• character

• solution

Fill in the Blank

The sequence of events in a story is the _______.

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of this story?

• Respect your elders.

• Be polite.

• Look before you leap.

Do you remember the meaning of conflict?

There are four main types of conflict that can take place in any type of story.

Multiple Choice

What type of conflict is best shown here...

• man vs. man

• man vs. self

• man vs. society

• man vs. nature

Multiple Choice

A person stuck in a snowstorm is an example of ______________ conflict.

• man vs nature

• man vs himself

• man vs man

• man vs society

Multiple Choice

What type of conflict is best shown here...

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

Multiple Choice

What type of conflict is best shown here...

• man vs. man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

Multiple Choice

A person feeling guilty is an example of what kind of conflict?

• man vs nature

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs society

Multiple Choice

What type of conflict is best shown here...

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

Multiple Choice

You decide to go to the city center to protest against a new law in your country.

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

Fill in the Blank

Which type of conflict is this: Batman vs. Superman?

Multiple Choice

Moana is determined to see what's beyond the horizon, but nature (the ocean) has different plans.

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society