Story Elements

a scene set at an earlier time than the plot

• theme
• plot 
• flashback 
• point of view

an anxious or excited feeling of not knowing what's going to happen next

• trait 
• suspense
• flashback 
• foreshadowing 

the writer's message;
a life lesson

• narrator
• prediction 
• exposition 
• theme

another name for a story

• plot

• character v. character

• non-fiction

• narrative

the perspective from which a story is told

• characterization 
• dialogue 
• point of view 
• narrator 

conversations between characters

• prediction 
• point of view
• narrative 
• dialogue

writing that is made up by the author

• fiction
• non-fiction

the feeling created in the reader by a literary work 

• point of view
• tone
• mood
• trait 

the writer's attitude 

• tone
• suspense 
• mood
• characterization 

the events in a story

• plot
• mood
• suspense
• theme