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Elements of Fiction NAME:

NOTES DATE:

Climax- Turning Point

Rising Action- Crisis- Character or situation


drama complicates the situation
changes

Falling Action
Inciting incident-conflict introduced

Resolution

Exposition: Introduce setting,


Conclusion
character, situation

Plot- The sequence of events in a story and their


relationship to one another. It sets up a problem or conflict.

Characters- People (or animals, etc.) who make something


happen in the story

Setting- Place and time of the story

Point of View- The eyes through which the story is told

First Person- “I” or “We”- narrator is involved in the story


Second Person- “You”- reader is involved in the story
Third Person- “She”, “he”, “they”-story told through
outside voice or narrator

Irony- When the unexpected thing happens, a twist ending,


or the opposite of literal meaning. Dramatic Irony- when the
audience or reader knows something that the character does
not.

Theme- A generalization about the meaning of the story.

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