Story Elements

Where and when a story occurs (the PLACE and TIME)

• Problem/Solution

• Summary

• Setting

• Characters

The people or animals in stories

• Details

• Problem/Solution

• Characters

• Plot

The sequence of events in a story, also called the storyline

• Plot

• Main Idea

• Setting

• Theme

The part of the plot that results in a turn in the conflict, sometimes thought of as the point at which readers feel the most emotionally involved (big hint the "peak" of the action).

• denouement

• climax

• exposition

• resolution

The struggle between opposing forces in known as the...

• conflict
• rising action
• theme
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A part of a story when there's a recollection/memory of a past event is called

• climax

• flash forward

• external conflict

• flashback

The central idea or lesson to be learned in a story

• Plot
• Exposition
• Theme
• Short Story

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Theme means:

• Broad idea in a story, or a message, or lesson conveyed by a work
• The way in which something is said, told, or done
• A person (or animal) in a story
• A struggle between opposing forces (the problem in the story)

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Telling of a story by a narrator who is a character in the story and describes his or her own thoughts and feelings 

• First person point of view
• Second person point of view
• Third person limited point of view
• Third person omniscient point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Telling of a story by an outside observer who knows all the characters' thoughts, feelings, can describe their behaviors.

• First person point of view

• Second person point of view

• Third person limited point of view

• Third person omniscient point of view