Elements of a Story

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

• Theme

• Setting

• Character

The happenings in the story that are arranged into the beginning, the middle, and the end.

• Events

• Setting

• Character

Represents both the physical location but also the time

• Events

• Character

• Setting

Idea, belief, moral, lesson or insight

• Theme

• Setting

• Events

A person or animal or really anything personified

• Character

• Events

• Theme

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

• Character

• Event

• Setting

The setting of a story describes where and _____ the action takes place.

• who

• when

• what

The central idea or message of a story

• Setting

• Events

• Theme

They are the answers to the questions about the story that begins with “who?”.

• Setting

• Character

• Theme

Which one is NOT a purpose of a story?

• to scare

• to persuade

• to entertain