Fast ELA Review

When and where a story takes place.

• timeline

• idiom

• setting

• origin

The people, animals, or objects that speak in the story.

• characters

• point of view

• antagonist

• protagonist

The problem in the story.

• central idea

• summary

• genre

• conflict

The unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.

• solution

• theme

• central idea

• problem

The message, lesson or moral of a story.

• summary

• theme

• plot

• conclusion

A brief statement of the main events of a story.

• summary

• central idea

• introduction

• chronological

Writing that expresses the author's opinion and aims to convince the reader to feel the same

• point of view

• narrative

• informative

• persuasive

The perspective a story is told from:

• origin

• narrator

• point of view

• personification

uses pronouns I, me and my. The story is about the person telling the story.

• third person point of view

• second person point of view

• biography

• first person point of view

the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in a plot

• infer

• imply

• convey

• foreshadow