Elements of Fiction Terms

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