Basic Story Elements

This is the point of highest tension in a story.

• Climax

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Another word for the denouement is: 

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the exposition of a story?

• The ending

• The part where the author hints at what is coming next

• The main character

• The beginning

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

This is the technical term for the person telling the story

• author

• narrator

• reader

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

This is the term for the person who wrote the story

• protagonist

• antagonist

• narrator

• author

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The author gives the reader hints and clues about what is coming next

• symbol

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

This comes directly after the climax of the story

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Introduction

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The overall idea presented in a story

• irony

• foreshadowing

• theme

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

This occurs when the opposite of what you would expect to happen occurs

• rising action

• foreshadowing

• irony

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

When the author directly tells us what the character looks like or what they act like in the text

• antagonist

• indirect characterization

• direct characterization

• foil

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3