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SettingTime and place of the story

When and where the story happens

Examples:

1912, Venus, the future

Can a story have multiple settings?

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CharacterPerson, animal, natural force, or object in the

storyDifferent types of characters:

Flat—one personality traitRound—has many different personality traitsStatic—never changeDynamic—develops and grows during the storyMain—more important charactersMinor—less important characters

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Protagonist—the main character of the story; the good guy

Antagonist—the force or person in conflict with the main character; the bad guy

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Characterization How the author makes the character come

aliveDoes this by providing physical descriptions,

character traits, thoughts, and feelings

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Plotthe series of events in a story

Exposition

Rising action

Climax

Falling action

Resolution

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Exposition (introduction)—beginning of a story that gives background information, introduces characters, and sometimes introduces conflict

Rising action—more complex actions occur, problems are more complicated, and a desire to find out what happens next is created

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Climax—when the intensity of the story reaches a peak and a turning point in action occurs that affects the outcome of the story

Falling action—intensity of the story subsides and the results of the major events wind down and are described

Resolution—the ending of the story when the problem or conflict is solved

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ConflictThe problem of the storyTwo types of conflict:

Internal Man vs. self

External Man vs. man Man vs. nature Man vs. society

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ThemeThe lesson you learn or the moral of the storyThe main idea the author wishes to share with

the readerThe subject of the story is not the same as the

theme of the story Theme cannot be love—what about love? Theme is not usually stated directly in the story

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Point of ViewWho is telling the story

First Person –a character in the story is telling the story. I, me

Third Person – someone else is telling the story Third person limited—narrator only knows one

character’s thoughts and feelings Third person omniscient—all knowing; told by someone

who knows the thoughts and feelings of every character in the story