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Elements of a Story

Elements of a Story. English 9. 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!.

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Elements of a Story

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  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 somewhere!

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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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.”

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

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