Story Elements

The person telling the story is not in the story.

• first-person

• third-person

the writer's message;
a life lesson

• narrator

• prediction 

• exposition 

• theme

the feeling created in the reader by a literary work 

• point of view

• tone

• mood

• trait 

What is this visual called?

• plot chart

• plot diagram

• diagram

• Ms. Redfoot is the Headless Horseman 

The series of events that make up a story

• Characters

• Conflict

• Theme

• Plot

The struggle or problem in a story

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Antagonist

The people, animals, or things that help to shape the plot

• Internal Force

• Rising Action

• Protagonist

• Characters

This is where and when the story takes place

• Characters

• Climax

• Setting

• Falling Action

The beginning of the story where the setting and main character are introduced

• Exposition

• Plot

• Climax

• Resolution

The part in the story that starts to bring the story to a close

• Setting

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Force