Plot is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.

Climax
Introduction
/ Exposition
Setting, characters,
Resolution

1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
Beginning of
Story
Middle of Story
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
End of Story

Time and place or where the action occurs
Details that describe setting:
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Scenery
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Customs
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Transportation
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Clothing
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Dialects
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Weather
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Time of day/year

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To create a mood
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To show a reader a different way of life
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To make action seem more realistic
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To increase the conflict or struggle
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To symbolize an idea

The person, animals, and things in the story
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under goes important changes
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remains the same throughout the story

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Protagonis t and antagonist
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The protagonist - the main character; the one with whom the reader identifies.
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The antagonist is the force in opposition of the protagonist

Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.
Internal
–character is facing a conflict within him/herself
External -outside factor

Character vs Character
Character vs Nature
Character vs Society

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First Person Point of View - uses the pronouns “I” and “me”. Narrator is in the story
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Third Person Point of View - an outside narrator is telling the story; uses the pronouns “he”, “she”, “they”

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Third-Person Limited
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Third-Person Omniscient
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The narrator knows the
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The narrator knows the thoughts and feeling of thoughts and feelings
ALL the characters in a of only ONE character story.
in a story.
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Objective Point of View-
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The narrator does not reveal anyone one character’s thoughts/feeling

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Mood is the feeling that the author tries to convey throughout the story.
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Tone
-expresses the write/author’s attitude toward his/her subject
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Imagery
- words and phrase that appeal to the five senses . Feel –sight-smell-taste-sound
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- when one thing is expected to happen but something else happens

Special Techniques used in a Story
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Suspense - excitement, tension, curiosity
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Foreshadowing - hint or clue about what will happen in story
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Flashback - interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past
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Symbolism – use of specific objects or images to represent ideas
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Personification
– when you make a thing, idea or animal do something only humans do
Simile
–using like or as to compare two things
Metaphor –a comparison not using like or as

 theme is the message about life that the write shares with the reader
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Theme-moral-message-lesson
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What is this story telling me about how life works, or how people behave?