Fiction Elements

The life lesson that the story conveys or teaches the reader

• setting

• resolution

• character

• theme or message

A struggle or issue a character must overcome

• conflict

• plot

• character

• foreshadowing

The most important person, animal, or creature in the story

• plot

• main character

• theme or message

• character traits

the events that take place in the story (story map)

• resolution

• point of view

• plot

• character

The _________ is when and where the story takes place

words that describe a character (personality and appearance)

• character traits

• setting

• conflict

• point of view

the way the characters solve or overcome the problem

• resolution

• conflict

• setting

• plot

the perspective from which a story is written

• foreshadowing

• main character

• point of view

• plot

a literary device used by the author to hint at something that might happen later in the story

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• theme or message

• setting

a literary device used by the author to take a reader back in time to explain an event

• resolution

• character traits

• flashback

• point of view