Elements of Fiction

This is a significant truth about life and its nature which takes place in the illustrations of the actions, preoccupations and decisions of the characters.

• Character

• Theme

• Setting

• Plot

This is the time and place in which the events of a story occur.

• Point of View

• Character

• Third-Person Omniscient

• Setting

A person portrayed in a drama, novel, or other artistic piece and they give life and beauty to the story

• Character

• Point of View

• Second- person POV

• Third-person Central

The narrator narrates the story in “all-knowing perspectives"

• Character

• Point of View

• Third-person Editorial

• Third-person Omniscient

The start of major conflict in the plot

• Climax

• Denouement

• Complication

• Exposition

Sets the scene by introducing the situation and settings and likewise lays out the characters

• Exposition

• Setting

• Plot

• Climax

This is the peak of the story which leads to an affirmation, a decision, an action, or even a realization.

• Crisis

• Climax

• Denouement

• Ending

A kind of plot that commences in the middle of the story

• En Medias Res

• Es Medias Res

• Res Medias En

• En Media Res

A kind of plot that the story merges with an interruption in the chronological order to show an event that happened in the past.

• En Medias Res

• Linear

• Plot

• Circular

A kind of plot that moves with natural sequence of events where actions are arranged sequentially.

• Linear

• En Medias Res

• Circular

• Line