7th Grade Review Plots and Literary Elements

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

Conflict within one's self

Conflict that is outside the person or character

The central message or deeper meaning; lesson one can learn

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

The feeling experienced by the reader when reading a story

The character that is against the protagonist

The main character in a literary work.

The attitude the author conveys

The pattern of events in a story.

The reasons behind the actions of characters.

The place and time in a story

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

This person tells a story in a literary work

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

Tells the story from the "I" point of view

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.

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

The turning point in the story; at point it may go various directions