The document defines key elements that create a story: setting, characters, plot, theme, mood, dialogue, character traits, motives, and conflict. It explains that the setting establishes where and when the story takes place. Characters can be people, animals, or objects and have major and minor roles. The plot is the chronological sequence of events, including exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution. The theme conveys the author's message. Mood and tone create the overall feeling. Dialogue and internal thoughts reveal characters. Motives explain why characters act as they do. Conflict drives the opposition between sides in the story.

1. Narrative Vocabulary What do plot, characters and conflict create??

2. Answer: A Story Where: The setting - can be a time (date, time of day or season) and place where the actions take place. A piece of writing will often have many settings - and each setting may set a mood/tone.

3. Who? Characters are the WHO in a story. The characters can be people, animals or objects personified. There are major and minor characters.

4. What? Plot is what happens, in chronological (time) order. Key words here are exposition, rising and falling action, climax and resolution.

5. What is this about? Theme - The author’s message about the human condition or problems we all face. These can include such issues as life, death, family, hope, coming of age, and growing old.

6. Mood - Atmosphere and Tone The overall feeling created by a piece. Mood can be described in a few words such as scary, lonely, anxious or sad. Details in the story need to support this judgment.

7. How? Dialogue - A conversation between two or more characters. Monologue - Character talks to reader or to themselves. Internal monologue -Character is thinking to themselves.

8. Character Traits What type of person is this? Character traits are revealed through actions, dialogue/monologue and by the author or narrator directly.

9. Motive WHY does a character do what he/she does in the story?? Motives are often based on feelings or emotions or logical conclusions - but can also be impulse. Every action in a story has a motive.

10. Conflict in a Narrative An opposition where it is obvious there are 2 sides. Conflict occurs outside the control of the characters. Conflict is shown through the actions of the characters.

11. Plot Diagram A. Introduction or Exposition - setting, characters, main conflicts are introduced to the reader; B . Rising Action - characters are developed, the conflicts are increased and acted out in many ways, motives are introduced, things happen; generally, the major part of a novel or story. C. Climax - the "high point" of a story in which the major conflicts erupt in some kind of final showdown. D. Falling Action - what events immediately follow the climax; a kind of "cleaning up." E. Resolution - where everything ends; the reader may have some sense of "closure" or may be asked to think about what might come next.