Fiction Review

1. Order of events that make up the story.

• Exposition

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

2. Sets the scene. The author includes characters, setting, and may introduce the conflict.

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

3. Building excitement based on the conflict.

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Exposition

4. Turning point of the story

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Exposition

Events that help resolve the conflict

• Rising Action

• Resolution

• Climax

• Falling Action

Conflicts are ended, outcomes are revealed, and a happy or sad ending takes place

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Ending

• Falling Action

First person is when “I” am telling the story. The character is in the story, relating his or her experiences directly.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

The story is about “he” or “she.” This is the most common point of view in commercial fiction. The narrator is outside of the story and relating the experiences of a character

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

The story is still about “he” or “she,” but the narrator has full access to the thoughts and experiences of all characters in the story

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

What is plot?

• the bad guy in a story

• the main idea

• the the problem is solved

• the sequences of events in a literary work