Freytag's Listing of Story elements

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Across
  1. 2. are the persons in the story who are described in personality, physicality, and/or relationship to other short story characters.
  2. 5. Fulfillment of the decision made at the climactic moment of the story. The consequence of that decision.
  3. 6. This is when the story builds with events happening and revealing of characters' reactions to these events. There is often a "complication," which means the problem the character tried to solve gets more complex.
  4. 8. This is story shifting when the explanation of what happens after the climax is revealed. This action is a result of the climactic moment.
  5. 9. is a relating of the feelings the story evokes and when they occur with an example taken from the story.
Down
  1. 1. The storyteller set the scene and the character's background. Of course, characters are identified by the description that is physical in nature and relationships to other characters as well, if there are other characters.
  2. 2. when the story reaches the point of greatest tension between the protagonist and antagonist.
  3. 3. where and, if possible when the story takes place.
  4. 4. This is when the character reacts to something that has happened, and it starts a chain reaction or reactionary sequence of events.
  5. 7. Reflection on the meaning of the story. It's what the story tells you and not your opinion.