Elements of a Story Vocabulary - BrainPop Junior

The most important character in the story

• Leading Man

• Character

• Main Character

• Antagonist

What someone or something is like and how they look and act

• Compare

• Trait

• Plot

• Setting

A Short Story

• Novel

• Play

• Encyclopedia

• Tale

To show how things are alike

• Compare

• Contrast

• Sequence

• Conflict

All of the events that happen in the story

• Past

• Plot

• Key Event

• Present

A problem

• Compare

• Contrast

• Conflict

• Solution

An answer to a problem

• Setting

• Sequence

• Short Story

• Solution

A time or place a story happens

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

Anything before the present

• Present

• Past

• Future

• Tomorrow

The time now

• Past

• Present

• Future

• Tomorrow