Fiction Notes (Literary Elements)

Otherwise known as P.I.E. (Persuade, Inform, or Entertain)

• Resolution

• Antagonist

• Author’s Purpose

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6

First phase of plot (where the setting and characters are introduced)

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

How the story MAKES you feel

• Conflict

• Theme

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is the “good guy” in the story (usually it’s the main character).

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Hero

• Character

From whose perspective the story is told (1st person, 3rd person limited, or 3rd person omniscient)

• Tone

• Setting

• Characterization

• POV

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

This is the moral or lesson the author is trying to teach you.

• Resolution

• Theme

• Conflict

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

This is the fourth phase of a plot, and it’s what happens immediately after the climax.

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

The problem the protagonist has to overcome (the four types include man vs man, man vs self, man vs society, or man vs nature)

• Conflict

• Climax

• Resolution

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

This is how the author creates and develops a character.

• Conflict

• Characterization

• POV

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

CCSS.W.6.3B

This is the bad guy in your story (the one fighting against your protagonist).

• Antagonist

• Tone

• Protagonist

• Theme