Monday, December 3, 2012

ELEMENTS OF A STORY

Plot - A pattern of events that develops from the interactions between characters.


A plot is a pattern of events in a cause and effect relationship.
1. Cause - Things that make something happen.
2. Effect - What happens because something was done.

Conflicts - The problems the characters encounter. Their conflicts can be:
1. External - conflict with others and with nature
2. Internal - conflict within themselves

Setting - Time and place of the story

Theme - The meaning behind the events and the characters' actions.

Narrative - The Point of View and Verbal tense of the narrator. How much the narrator intrudes into the story.


Style of Writing - Rhetorical devices, word choice, and sentence structure. 

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