The Story Elements

The setting of a story is:

• Time and place where the action occurs

• Character changes by the end of the story

• Interrupt the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past (or future)

• Story is written the order the events actually occurred

Hints/clues about what might happen later in the story is called?

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Mood

• Tone

Plot is:

•  Hint/clue about what might happen later in the story

•  A feeling of excitement of tension

• Describes the events happening within a story

• A person (or animal) in a story

What is conflict?

• person (or animal) in a story

• Time and place where the action occurs

• struggle between opposing forces (the problem in the story)

• Broad idea in a story, or a message, or lesson conveyed by a work

A ________ story is a story that is not true.

• fiction

• non-fiction

• novel

• text

Both novels and short stories contain the following:

• setting and characters

• plot and mood

• a theme

• all of the above

What is a character?

• A person (or animal) in a story

• When a story leaves the reader in suspense 

• A feeling of excitement of tension

• Story is written the order the events actually occurred

Which part of the plot is the most exciting, “highest” point of the story?

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Climax

What type of character is seen as the main character or focus of the story?

• Subordinate

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Static

What type of characters remain exactly the same at the end as they were in the beginning?

• Antagonist

• Dynamic

• Protagonist

• Static