1. Elements of Fiction Element (noun) a part or aspect of something
Fiction (noun) Fabrication. Fiction suggests a story invented and fashioned, either to entertain or to deceive

2. CHARACTER
a person, animal or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a story

3. MAIN CHARACTER
the focus character in a story (most important)

4. MINOR CHARACTER
a less important character in a story

5. STATIC CHARACTER
a character that changes little or not at all

6. DYNAMIC CHARACTER
a character that changes significantly

7. PROTAGONIST
the main character in the story who is involved in the conflict

8. ANTAGONIST
the force working against the main character

9. Characteristics
a set of qualities that makes a person, place, or thing different from other persons, places, or things

10. CHARACTERIZATION
the ways a writer creates and develops a character

11. FOUR LENSES OF CHARACTER
Looks
Thoughts/feelings
Actions
Viewed by others
Talk the talk vs walk the walk

12. CONFLICT
a struggle between two opposing forces

13. when a character struggles against some outside person or force
EXTERNAL CONFLICT
when a character struggles against some outside person or force
character v. character
character v. society
character v. nature
character v. fate

14. a struggle within a character
INTERNAL CONFLICT
a struggle within a character
character v. self

15. PLOT
the events that make up a story

16. introduces the setting, characters and conflict in the story
EXPOSITION
introduces the setting, characters and conflict in the story

17. the plot gets more complicated; leads up to the climax
RISING ACTION
the plot gets more complicated; leads up to the climax

18. CLIMAX
the point of highest interest or suspense in a story; the turning point

19. RESOLUTION
the loose ends are tied up and the story comes to a close

20. POINT OF VIEW
the perspective from which a story is told

21. FIRST PERSON
when the narrator is a character in a story (I, me, we)

22. THIRD PERSON
when the narrator is not a character in the story (he, she, it, they)

23. SETTING
the time and place of the action in a story

24. THEME
the moral, message, or lesson about life that the writer wants the reader to learn

25. IRONY
humorous or scornful use of words to express the opposite of what one really means; what is said or written is not what is meant

26. VERBAL IRONY Contrast between what is said and what is meant
Nice weather we are having!

27. DRAMATIC IRONY
Contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true.
When the reader is “in on a secret.”

28. SITUATIONAL IRONY contrast between what happens and what is expected.
someone playing a prank on someone else, it backfires, and the prankster gets a pie in the face.