Fiction Terms

Elements of Fiction Theme: author’s main point, main idea

Setting: when and where the story takes place

Antagonist: The force or person working against the protagonist

Protagonist: the main character (can be good or bad)

Symbol: when an object has more meaning than just the literal meaning.

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Tone: attitude of the speaker

Narrator: Voice telling the story

Allusion: reference to a historical event or work of literature (the reader should recognize them)

Plot: The events of a story

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Internal Conflict: struggle within a character involving no outside forces

External Conflict: struggle between the protagonist and an outside force (person, nature, animals etc)

Characters: the people or things in a story

Plot: Exposition: Background Information Inciting Incident: The problem (when the trouble begins) Rising Action: Events that lead to the climax Climax: Turning point of the story Falling Action: the events after the Climax Resolution: how the problem is solved Denoument: conclusion

Point of View: how the story is told

Third Person: the narrator is someone outside of the story telling about the characters in the story.

Omnicient: narrator knows everything about the characters thoughts, feelings, and motives

Limited: narrator tells the story in third person but stays within what is experienced by the character.

First Person: the narrator speaks as I, the story is limited to what the first person narrator knows or can find out.