Narrative Structure

A fully developed character that exhibits many traits.

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

The perspective or vantage point of the story.

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

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

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

The author's style of writing.

A struggle within the mind of a character.

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

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

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

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

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

When something unexpected happens.

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

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

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

Tells a story.

The events that happen after the climax.

Saying the opposite of what you mean (sarcasm)

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

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

A struggle between opposing forces is called

One-sided and often stereotypical characters

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

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

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

What is the turning point in a story called?

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

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

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

Anything that stands for or represents something else.

The outcome of the conflict in the plot.

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

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