Q1U1 Narrative Elements Vocab

another name for a story

• plot

• narrative

• narrator

• flashback

the time and place in which a story occurs

• dialogue

• flashback

• exposition

• setting

the sequence of events in a story

• narrative

• rising action

• plot

• setting

a problem

• climax

• tone

• characterization

• conflict

the way an author develops or reveals a character’s traits

• point of view

• characterization

• narrator

• trait

a quality that someone or something possesses

• mood

• characterization

• dialogue

• trait

conversations between characters; a character’s speech in a text

• narrative

• narrator

• dialogue

• text evidence

the person or character telling a story

• narrator

• dialogue

• point of view

• narrative

the perspective from which the story is told

• narrator

• exposition

• point of view

• theme

the author’s message or life lesson

• narrative

• inference

• prediction

• theme