Basic Story Elements

This is the point of highest tension in a story.

• Climax

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Exposition

Another word for the denouement is: 

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

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

This is the technical term for the person telling the story

• author

• narrator

• reader

• protagonist

This is the term for the person who wrote the story

• protagonist

• antagonist

• narrator

• author

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

• symbol

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• simile

This comes directly after the climax of the story

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Introduction

The overall idea presented in a story

• irony

• foreshadowing

• theme

• exposition

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

• rising action

• foreshadowing

• irony

• metaphor

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