Story Elements of Fiction

When and where a story takes place is the ______ of a story.

• Characters
• Point of View
• Setting
• Climax

The resolution is where the story ______________.

• tells how the problem was solved
• introduces characters and setting
• has an event that starts the story
• shows when and where the story takes place

_________ is another name for the problem .

• Point of View
• Conflict
• Plot
• Setting

The perspective from which a story is told is called the __________. Usually it is in 1st or 3rd person.

• Conflict
• Plot
• Point of View
• Setting

Plot

• The lesson  learned
• The events in a story
• Support the main idea

Main idea

• What the story is all about
• The lesson learned
• Read between the lines

Supporting details

• Backs up or supports the main idea
• The events in a story
• To tell orally

What is the setting?

• Where and when the story takes place
• The main character's home
• Where the author wrote the story
• A place to sit

What is conflict?

• Fighting
• The problem the main character faces
• Feeling sick
• The central message of the story

author's purpose

• what the selection is mostly about
• the reason someone writes
• to put the events in order
• when and where the story takes place