Elements of a Story

Fiction stories...

• are completely true

• never have anything true

• have at least some made-up parts

People, animals, or other creatures in a story are called...

• Characters

• Setting

• Text

• Resolution

The author's central message about life or how people behave

• events

• setting

• theme

• resolution

The problems the characters face in the story is called

• solution

• events

• resolutions

• conflicts

Most important person around whom the events of the plot revolve

• main character

• genre

• minor character

• setting

The time and place in which the action of a story takes place

• solution

• plot

• setting

• element

The main story events and actions

• setting

• plot

• text

• genre

Alex shut the lid to his laptop with a loud clap. Some of the people sitting at the tables near him looked up from their books and gave him annoyed looks. Alex realized that he had disturbed them and held up his hand apologetically. The librarian turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps louder than the noise that he had made. Alex put the laptop in his bag and began walking toward the door. He held his head down low.

Which of the following choices is evidence that the setting is a library?

• He held his head down low.

• Alex shut the lid to his laptop with a loud clap

• Alex realized that he had disturbed them and held up his hand apologetically.

• The librarian turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps louder than the noise that he had made.

What is the setting of the passage below?

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of the morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980's

The end of the story when the reader finds out what happens to the characters after the conflict

• resolution

• climax

• setting

• events