Elements of Fiction Terms
Across
- 2. a character that changes as a result of the story
- 7. character that has many traits shared
- 8. the character or force that works against the main character
- 9. character that has few traits shared
- 16. what drives a character
- 18. interrupting chronological order to share events that happen in the future
- 21. obstacles that make it more difficult for the characters
- 22. the process by which authors build characters; we use the STEAL method to map these traits
- 23. the worry readers feel for the characters; the same as tension
- 24. the series of related events in a story
Down
- 1. follows the climax and leads to the conclusion
- 3. a character that does not change
- 4. irony in which the reader and characters are surprised by the unexpected
- 5. the time and place of a story
- 6. the struggle between opposing forces in a story
- 10. the basic situation of a story: setting, characters, conflict
- 11. how a story ends; usually loose ends are tied up
- 12. the most suspenseful portion of the plot
- 13. the main character of a story
- 14. irony in which the reader knows something a character does not
- 15. interrupting chronological order to share events that happened in the past
- 17. when a character says something but means the opposite; sarcasm
- 18. hints at what will happen in the future
- 19. person, animal, object that carries out action in a story
- 20. the main portion of plot; full of complications and leads to the climax