Story Elements

a person or animal in a story

• plot

• character

• falling action

• mood

events after the climax and before the resolution

• setting

• exposition

• falling action

• climax

the final part in which the conflict is resolved and the story is brought to a close

• resolution

• exposition

• protagonist

• plot

giving an inanimate object human characteristics

• protagonist

• dancing bear

• foreshadow

• personification

the setting and characters as described at the beginning of the story

• exposition

• antagonist

• metaphor

• climax

time and place of a story

• setting

• simile

• climax

• narrative

Match the following

• simile

• comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as:

• conflict

• what happens in a story, novel or play

• plot

• the most exciting part of a story

• climax

• the struggle between opposing forces

• mood

• the overall feeling of a work of literature

the character that opposes the main character

• protagonist

• setting

• antagonist

• hero of the story

using background knowledge and clues to guess what is happening

• personification

• metaphor

• mood

• inference

the central character around which the conflict revolves

• antagonist

• simile

• protagonist

• setting