8th Grade Review Plots and Literary Elements

Conflict that is outside the person or character

The narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all that happens to the characters

People, animals, or other beings that appear in a literary work.

The feeling experienced by the reader when reading a story

The central message or deeper meaning in a story, poem, play, or other work.

An outsider tells the story and uses he, she, or they.

The manner that the author reveals the characters in a narrative

Conflict within one's self

The main character in a literary work.

The character that is against the protagonist

The start of the story where we are exposed to the characters and setting.

The pattern of events in a story.

The place and time in a story

The turning point in the story

The reasons behind the actions of characters.

The attitude the author conveys

The struggle between opposing forces in a story on which the narrative depends.

This person tells a story in a literary work

Tells the story from the "I point of view

The speaker uses the pronoun you

An additional line of action in a story that in some way affects the main plot.

Also called denouement, this is the final event of the plot.

Tells the story knowing only what is seen, heard, and felt by the thoughts of one character.

Nonfiction works don't have a theme, but that have a