Basic Story Elements

This is the point of highest tension in a story.

• Climax
• Resolution
• Rising Action
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

This type of narration uses "I" and "we"

• First
• Second
• Omniscient
• Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

This is the least bias type of third person narration

• First
• Second
• Limited-Omniscient
• Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Another word for the denouement is: 

• Exposition
• Resolution
• Falling Action
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the exposition of a story?

• The ending
• The part where the author hints at what is coming next
• The main character
• The beginning

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Two characters who are opposite physically and/or emotionally are called:

• Evil
• Foils
• Twins
• Duoantagonists 

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

This occurs when the opposite of what you would expect to happen occurs

• rising action
• foreshadowing
• irony
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This is the technical term for the person telling the story

• author
• narrator
• reader
• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

This is the term for the person who wrote the story

• protagonist
• antagonist
• narrator
• author

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A biography would fall in this genre

• fiction
• nonfiction 
• poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10