1. Story Structure Terminology

2. A necdote A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

3. Back Story A simplified, small amount of information to give the reader some information.

4. Comic Relief A comic episode in a dramatic or literary work that offsets a more serious section. EX: Timon and Pumba holding a luau in the middle of a tense situation.

5. Flashback A scene set in a time earlier than the main story. The entire movie Titanic is a flashback.

6. Foreshadow Indication of a future event in the story

7. Pace The speed or rate at which something happens, changes, or develops

8. Past/Present/Future The frame of time for which a story is told in

9. Plot Line The progression of a story including: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution

10. Point of View The perspective in which a story is told/presented