The document discusses key elements that are essential to stories, including setting, characters, theme, plot, and conflict. It explains that characters can be developed through imagery, inference, and point of view. It also outlines the basic plot structure of a beginning, middle, and end, and describes additional elements like humor, symbolism, drama, and mystery that can make stories more interesting.
5. Characters
The use of Imagery allows the author to
introduce and develop characters by using
words to describe characters physically. The
author also paints a character’s personality
traits in order for the reader to get to know and
understand the characters.
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6. Characters
A reader uses Inference to make connections
to characters based on the reader’s own
experiences in order for the reader to
empathize with characters and the story.
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7. Characters
Point of View is another feature that
may add to character development.
A Story may be told by one of its
characters or either from the point of
view of an unnamed narrator.
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8. The Main Idea of the story-what
the story is about
Theme may lead to a “Moral” or
lesson to be learned by reading
the story
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