Elements of Fiction

Beginning of the story; characters, background, and setting revealed.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Turning point of the story. Readers wonders what will happen next; will the conflict be resolved or not?

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Final outcome of events in the story.

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Essential to plot, opposition ties incidents together and moves the plot. Not merely limited to arguments, conflict can be any struggle the main character faces. Within a short story, there may be only one central struggle, or there may be many minor obstacles within a dominant struggle.

• Climax

• Characters

• Conflict

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Resolution begins; events and complications start to fall into place. These are the events between climax and denouement.

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Climax

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Final outcome of events in the story.

• Theme

• Conflict

• Exposition

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Time and location that a story takes place. For some stories, this is very important; while for others, it is not.

• Characters

• Setting

• Theme

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Clear center of story; all major events are important to this character.

• Antagonist

• Round Character

• Flat Character

• Protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Opposition or "enemy" of main character.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Static Character

• Dynamic Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Character who does go through change and "grows" during a story.

• Static character

• Dynamic character

• Round Character

• Flat character

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3