Vocab List 2 Fall 2020 Narrative Elements

The sequence of events.

• Theme.

• Plot.

• Setting.

• Characterization.

The author chooses their words very carefully to make the audience feel a certain way.

• Word Choice.

• Pacing.

• Atmosphere.

• Theme.

Clash of actions, ideas, desires, or wills.

• Conflict.

• Plot.

• Theme.

• Suspense.

The main character, usually the good guy.

• Characterization.

• Character.

• Protagonist.

• Antagonist.

The mood or feeling of a story.

• Theme.

• Pacing.

• Word choice.

• Atmosphere.

The way in which the author reveals the characters.

• Indirect.

• Characterization.

• Direct.

• People / ideas.

The bigger message the author is trying to get across.

• Characterization.

• Setting.

• Plot.

• Theme.

Time and place.

• Setting.

• Atmosphere.

• Storyline.

• Antagonist.

That feeling that you want to know what will happen next.

• Conflict.

• Suspense.

• Antagonist.

• Plot.

The forces arrayed against them, whether persons, things, conventions of society, nature, their own traits. Creates the problem.

• Protagonist.

• Antagonist.

• Procrastinationist.

• Evaluationist.