1. Elements of Fiction

2. Five Main Elements
Plot – what is the story about?
Characterization – the people or objects the story
is about.
Point of View – who is telling the story?
Setting - where does the story take place?
Theme – the main idea or ideas.
 Lesson(s) learned

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4. Parts of Plot
Exposition
 Inciting Incident
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Resolution
 Dénouement

5. Exposition
The conditions present at the beginning of the story.
Background information.

6. Rising Action
The events that complicate the plot.
 Inciting Incident or Literary Hook is sometimes used between
the Exposition and the Rising Action.

7. Climax
The highest point of interest or emotion in the story.
The point where the two opposing forces are
strongest.

8. Falling Action
Events leading to the end of the conflict.

9. Resolution
The end of the conflict.
 Dénouement- Sometimes this term is used to specifically list
the ending events.

10. Plot Structure

11. Two Types of Conflict
External- involves an outside source
 Man vs. Man
 Man vs. Nature
 Man vs. Society
Internal- goes on within the character
 Man vs. Himself

12. Man vs. Man

13. Man vs. Nature

14. Man vs. Society

15. Man vs. Himself

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17. Character Development
What a character say, thinks, and feels
Way a character acts
What others say about the character
How others act toward the character

18. Protagonist
The main character
The hero
The character that the reader becomes emotionally
involved with.

19. Superman

20. Antagonist
The character who goes up against the protagonist in
the man versus man conflict.
The “villain.”
…this is not always true.

21. Darth Vader

22. Ways to Characterize
Round Character-
 Shows many different traits (i.e. faults, virtues)
 We feel as if we know the character
Flat Character-
 Not fully developed
 We only meet one side of the character

23. Characterization
Dynamic Character-
 The character has changed in someway by the end of the story
Static Character-
 The character does not change throughout the story

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25. Point of View
Who is telling this story
 1st Person
 2nd Person
 3rd Person:
 Limited
 Omniscient

26. First Person
Narrator is a character
Narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one
character
Narrator uses words like I, me, my, we, us, our
 …psst… these are personal pronouns

27. Second Person
Uses You while referring to you (the reader):
 You open the door and step outside. You notice several of your
friends running.
Not used very often
 Very popular in song or directions.

28. 3rd Person Limited
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one
character.

29. 3rd person Omniscient
The narrator knows the thoughts, feelings, and
motivations for all characters.

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31. Setting
The Time Period a story happens in
 “White Fang”- early 1900s
The Place a story happens
 “The Tell-Tale Heart”- a spooky house.

32. Roles of Setting
Background for action.
Adds details necessary to the story.
Drives the action of the plot (the story couldn’t take
place in a different setting).

33. TThheemmee

34. Theme
What the protagonist learns.
The main idea of the story.
What the reader can take and apply to his/her life.

35. Work Cited
 Potter, Kacey. Man vs. Nature. Digital image. Engrade. Wiki. Retrieved on 31 Oct. 2014 from https
://wikis.engrade.com/literaryconflict
 ---. Man vs. Society. Digital image. Engrade. Wiki. Retrieved on 31 Oct. 2014 from
https://wikis.engrade.com/literaryconflict
 Sloan, Barbara J. Plot Structure Diagram. Digital image. Engaging Faith. Ava Maria Press, 29 Aug.
2011. Retrieved on 31 Oct. 2014 from
https://www.avemariapress.com/engagingfaith/2011/08/introducing-course-plot-structure-diagram/
 Sonato Das. Jason Booth vs. Willie Casey. Digital image. Boxing Mania. Blog, 14 Jul. 2012. Retrieved
on 31 Oct. 2014 from http://boxnigmania.blogspot.com/2012/07/watch-jason-booth-vs-willie-casey-live.
html
 STARWARS.COM TEAM. Darth Vader. Digital image. Starwars.com. Databank. Retrieved on 31 Oct.
2014 from http://www.starwars.com/databank/darth-vader
 “Superman.” Heroes Wikia. Digital image. Wiki. Retrieved on 31 Oct. 2014 from
http://hero.wikia.com/wiki/Superman
 Tebeau, Colleen Newvine. Internal Conflict. Digital image. Newvine Growing. Wordpress, 28 Feb.
2010. Retrieved on 31 Oct. 2014 from http://newvinegrowing.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/silencing-your-
inner-critic/