Elements of Fiction

The angle from which the story is told.

• Characters

• First Person

• static characters

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Story told by the protagonist or a character who interacts closely with the protagonist or other characters; speaker users the pronouns "i", "me", "we". Readers experiences the story through this person's eyes and only knows what he/she knows and feels

• Round

• First Person

• theme

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Clear center of story and seen as good; all major events are important to this character.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Round

• Flat

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A person, animal, being, creature, or thing that performs the actions and dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Characters

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Necessary to plot, and not just arguments, these can be any form of struggle the main character faces. There may be only one central struggle, or there may be many minor obstacles within a dominant struggle. There are two types.

• character

• plot

• point of view

• 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. The end of plot development.

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Characters who does go through change and "grows" over the course of a story

• Rising Action

• Static characters

• Dynamic characters

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Character does not go through a change by the end of the story

• Static character

• Dynamic Character

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Fully developed personalities that are affected by the story's events; they can learn, grow, or deteriorate by the end of the story. Characters are most convincing when they resemble real people by being consistent, motivated, and life-like.

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Flat character

• Round character

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

opposition of main character, the villain

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Static character

• Dynamic character

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3