Story Element Vocabulary

What are the 5 essential parts of the plot?

• introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• Introduction, an action, fights, another action, solution

• intro, middle, end

• 3 act structure

The ____ is how the author arranges events to develop their basic idea.

c

d

e

f

b

a

exposition

introduction

rising action

falling action

climax

resolution

Match the following

• controlling idea or central insight.

• Rising Action

• time and location in which a story takes place

• Setting

• where the event in the story becomes complicated, conflict is revealed

• Theme

• the person in a work of fiction, or the characteristics of a person

• Character

• highest point of interests and Turing point of the story

• Climax

Select all that apply. The two types of conflict are

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• mental/physical

• outside

• external/internal

• inside

two meanings for the word character

• the person in a work of fiction & the characteristics of a person

• characteristics of a person

• how they look

• how they are described

How does a writer reveal a character? (choose 4)

​ ​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ ​ (b)   ​ ​ (c)  

• what others say about them

• what they do/do not do

• what they think say feel and dream

• their physical appearance

• all of the above

What is an example of common themes in tv and film?

setting is a compilation of

​ ​ ​ ​ what 5 things?

Match the following

• what feeling is created?

• place

• when the story takes place in time

• mood/atmosphere

• rainy, stormy, sunny

• weather condition

• daily life of character

• time

• geographical location

• social conditions