Narrative Structure

The sequence of events in a story. It includes five major parts.

The author's style of writing.

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work (atmosphere).

The writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject.

The perspective or vantage point of the story.

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

When something unexpected happens.

A scene within a story that interrupts and relates events that occurred in the past.

The author's use of clues to hint what might happen later in the story.

The writer depends on the reader to draw conclusions about the character's traits.

A fully developed character that exhibits many traits.

The narrator knows and tells about what each character thinks and feels.

One-sided and often stereotypical characters

A character who changes or grows throughout the course of a story.

Relates the thoughts and feelings of only one character (narrator is not the character)

A generalization about human beings or about life. The lesson readers learn.

The part of a story where the conflict is developed and increased.

A feeling of anxious uncertainty about the outcome of events in a story.

The time and place of a literary work. It also includes the weather.

Told by the character. The character is the narrator. Uses the pronoun, "I."

Introduction in a story or drama that includes the characters, setting, and basic situation.

What word describes qualities, attitudes, or values that a character has or displays.

When the author states the character's traits or characteristics.

A struggle with an outside force such as another person or the forces of nature.

What is the turning point in a story called?

The outcome of the conflict in the plot.

The pattern the story's plot follows and any devices used to move the plot forward

Saying the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm)

A struggle within the mind of a character.

Tells a story.

A story within a story that usually meets up with the main plot of the story.

When the reader of a story knows something that the characters in the story do not.

The events that happen after the climax.

A character that does not change throughout the course of the story.

A struggle between opposing forces is called