Elements of a Story

It shows what happens in the story.

• plot

• theme

• setting

• characters

The challenge in a story that the main character or characters must solve.

• resolution

• conflict

• theme

• plot

This are things, animals or human beings who act in the story.

• plot

• conflict

• characters

• theme

It involves time and place of the story.

• plot

• setting

• conflict

• characters

It answers how the problem in the story is resolved.

• beginning

• conflict

• theme

• resolution

Minor characters who help us learn about the main characters.

• protagonists

• antagonists

• supporting characters

• main characters

It is the author’s message or central concept about life or human nature conveyed through the story.

• plot

• theme

• setting

• characters

The hero or heroine in the story.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• pretagonist

• antigonist

It consists of the protagonists and antagonists.

• protagonists

• antagonists

• supporting characters

• main characters

He or she is the villain in the story.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• pretagonist

• antigonist