Literary Elements

This type of narrator can relate the thoughts and feelings of more than one character.

• First Person
• Third Person
• Limited
• Omniscient

Introduces the conflict

• Situation

• Inciting Incident

• Tone

• Rising Action

Is the author's attitude towards his/her writing.

• Mood

• Expression

• Tone

• Point of View

Is the main actor against the protagonist. Can be the "villain" in some stories.

• Villain

• Antagonist

• Mr. Stroupe

• Evil Force

Is the perspective from which the story is told.

• Narrator
• Point of View
• Third Person
• Speaker

Involves the sequence of all the action in the story.

• Documentary 
• Situation
• Climax
• Plot

Is the subject or message about life in general presented by the story. It can be discussed from many points of view.

• Moral

• Wisdom

• Theme

• Resolution

Is the time and place in which the subject occurs.

• Rising Action
• Plot Line
• Character
• Setting

Is the negative force at work in the story.

• Antagonist

• Conflict

• THE EVIL MARSHMALLOW MAN

• The Cookie Monster!!!

Is the "god-like" intuition about the people and events of the story.

• Limited
• Documentary 
• Omnicient
• All-Knowing