Elements of the Story

 It is essential to the plot and it can be any form of struggle the main character faces.

• Conflict

• Plot

• Setting

• Protagonist

It is how the author arranges the events to develop the basic idea of the story; the sequence of events in a story.

• Conflict

• Protagonist

• Plot

• Setting

The time and location that a story takes place.

• Conflict

• Setting

• Plot

• Protagonist

A character that is the clear center of the story and all major events are important to this character.

• Setting

• Protagonist

• Conflict

• Falling Action

A type of character that has fully developed personalities that are affected by the story’s events.

• Protagonist

• Round Character

• Falling Action

• Conflict

A part of the plot when events and complications start to fall into place.

• Conflict

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Denouement

It is the turning point of the story.

• Climax

• Denouement

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

It is events in the story when it starts to get complicated and this is where the conflict is revealed.

• Denouement

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

It is the opposition or the “enemy’ of the main character.

• Static Character

• Dynamic Character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

What element of the story is focused in the statement above?

• character

• event

• setting

• theme