Literary Elements and Parts of Plot

The encounter between two or more opposing forces.

• External Conflict

• Conflict

• Internal Conflict

Vocabulary Words; Select the correct word for each definition.

Arranging the events in the order they happened.

• Chronological Order

• Internal Conflict

• Flashback

Vocabulary Words; Select the correct word for each definition.

Psychological struggles that occurs within the mind of a character.

• Chronological Order

• Internal Conflict

• Flashback

Vocabulary Words; Select the correct word for each definition.

Struggle between the character and any outside force.

• Chronological Order

• External Conflict

• Flashback

Vocabulary Words; Select the correct word for each definition.

Fragment of the story that reveals something that happened in the past.

• Chronological Order

• External Conflict

• Flashback

Vocabulary Words; Select the correct word for each definition.

People, animals, aliens, objects or supernatural beings that take part in the story.

• Plot

• Setting

• Characters

a group of scenes that divides the play, opera, or other drama into important parts of the story (hint: there can be 1-5 of these)

• chapter

• monologue

• scene

• act

a division of an act presenting continuous action in one place, a single situation, or unit of dialogue

• scene

• act

• chapter

• prologue

a dramatic convention in which a speech is given by a single character, either alone or to others

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• monologue

• prologue

a dramatic convention in which a speech is given by a character while or as if alone; literally, "talking to oneself."

• soliloquy

• monologue

• dialogue

• prologue