Monday, October 4, 2010

Vocab. words for week of Oct. 4

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  1. Story Elements

    1. Character – a person in a story

    2. Setting – the time and place of a story
    Time = day, year, season, past, future, etc.
    Place = city, building, neighborhood, etc.

    3. Plot –the series of events that make up the action of a story (what happens)

    4. Theme – the central message, moral or lesson of a story
    (the author doesn’t tell you the theme; you must figure this out for yourself)

    5. Conflict – the problem of the story

    6. External Conflict – the character struggles with someone or something else
    (Ex: a fight or argument)

    7. Internal Conflict – takes place in the mind of a character (Ex: a character is afraid of something)

    8. Mood – the feeling or emotion you get from reading a story (Ex: humor, sorrow, suspense, etc.)

    9. Narrator – the person who tells the story

    10. First-person point of view – the narrator is a part of the story (Look for “I,” “me,” “our,” “us,” etc.)

    11. Third-person point of view – the narrator is reporting events,
    but is not a part of the story (Look for “he,” “she,” “them,” “their,” etc.)

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