The document outlines the four main elements of a story: point of view, characters, plot, and setting. It then provides more details on each element, such as the different points of view and types of characters. The document also describes the typical six points on a plot curve: exposition, inciting moment, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Finally, it discusses how characters can be static or dynamic and the different ways of characterizing them through direct or indirect means.

1. Elements of a Story English 9

2. The four main elements Point of View Every story needs a person to tell it. Characters If you’re telling a story, you need someone to be in it! Plot If there’s a character, something needs to happen. Setting It must take place some where!

3. But aren’t they more specific? Point of view First person Third-person omniscient Third-person limited Setting A time and place

5. 6 Points on a plot curve Exposition The introduction, where we’re EXPOSed to the characters and essential details Inciting moment aka – narrative hook Where the action kicks into gear The conflict is introduced here Where it starts getting interesting

6. 6 Points on a plot curve Rising action Where the story gets complicated and more intense Takes up the bulk of the story Climax The emotional peak of the story Where the conflict reaches its ultimate intensity/complication

7. 6 Points on a plot curve Falling Action “ Tying up loose strings” – sorting out the details that are left after the climax Resolution (aka denouement) Conflict is resolved, and the story has finished

9. Characters Static Character Does not change through the course of the story Dynamic Character Changes / learns / grows during the course of a story

10. Characterization How a character is portrayed (displayed/developed) Direct characterization When a writer tells us directly what a character is like “ He was an impolite oaf who had never made a good first impression.”

11. Characterization Indirect Characterization When a writer shows us what a character is like without telling us directly through actions, words, physical appearances, etc.