THE 6 ELEMENTS OF A STORY

SETTING

• The setting is the specific time and place that a story takes place.
• Time could be a historical period, time of day, year, or date.
• The location can be described in weather conditions or even mood and atmosphere.

CHARACTER

• Can be the person in a work of fiction.
• Characters of a person.
• Every story should have a protagonist.
• Antagonist, flat, round, static, dynamic, foils, or stock are other characters
• Example: Spongebob is the protagonist in Spongebob Squarepants.

PLOT

• The sequence of events in a story that the author arranges.
• Usually the plot is divided into five parts.
• Introduction, initiating incident, rising action, climax, then denouement

CONFLICT

• Without a conflict there would be no plot in a story.
• Also known as the problem or central struggle.
• The four kinds of conflicts are:
• Human vs. Human, Human vs. Nature, Human vs. Society, and Human vs. Self

POINT OF VIEW

• The perspective from which a story is told
• First, second, and third are the common ones.
• Other forms of p.o.vs are:
• Innocent eye, stream of consciousness, omniscient, and objective.

THEME

• The author's underlying meaning or main idea.
• Usually is the moral of the story.
• The author will use some kind of figure of speech to emphasize the theme.
• Examples:don't judge a book 📖 by its cover and don't always believe what you see.
• "Don't Judge People By Their Looks"

CREDITS

• Elements of a short story
• By: Sean Webster