Elements of a Story

What is important about the exposition?

• It is the final part of the story.

• You learn about the characters and setting

• It summarizes what the whole story is about

• It is when the most exciting part of the story happens

What do we call the problem in the story?

• conflict

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

What is the most exciting part of the story called?

• conflict

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

What is the exposition of the story?

• three little pigs in space!

• space pirate, Captain Wolf wants to blow up the space ships!

• Captain Wolf attacks the ship of straw and the little pig escapes to the twig ship!

What is the conflict of this story?

• three little pigs in space!

• space pirate, Captain Wolf wants to blow up the piggies!

• Captain Wolf attacks the first two pigs' ships!

What is the climax of this story?

• Captain Wolf attacks the first two piggies, who have escaped to the metal ship!

• The three space pigs trap Captain Wolf in a space barrel and solve the problem!

• The third piggy makes the strongest ship of them all

What is the resolution of the story?

• they trap Captain Wolf in a barrel!

• they throw the barrel into space or abandon it on a planet!

• The first two pigs learn they need to put in more work, and build better ships instead of being lazy

True or false: Story elements apply to ALL types of stories -- even movies and video games!

• True

• False