Story Elements Glossary
• Setting: Where and When the story takes place
• Characters: Who is in the story
• Plot
– Story Problem/Conflict: What happens in the story?
– Climax: What is the most suspenseful part of the story in which
we will get an idea of the outcome of the conflict?
– Resolution: How does the story end? How is the conflict
resolved?
• Theme: What universal message is the author trying to
teach us through the story?
• Mood: Is it a funny story or a sad story or even a spooky
story?
• Point of View: Is the narrator a character in the story (1st
person) or is s/he outside of the story (3rd person)
The wolf tries to attack
Red whose screams
attract the woodsman
who then rescues her by
killing the wolf.
Little Red Riding Hood
The wolf
The woodsman
Grandma
Grandma is freed and Red is safe and
lives happily ever after
Things are not
always what they
appear to be OR
don’t go off into the
woods alone
Little Red needs to figure out why
grandma seems different
Grandma’s House in the woods
Example: Little Red Riding Hood
• Setting: Grandma’s House in the
Woods
• Characters: Red, the Wolf,
Grandma, the Woodsman
• Conflict: Little Red needs to
figure out why grandma seems
different
• Climax: the Wolf, who had eaten
grandma as a first course, eats
Red. However, a woodsman
heard the struggle, arrives and
kills the wolf to rescue grandma
and Red from the Wolf’s
stomach.
• Resolution: Other than the wolf,
everyone lives happily ever after
Example: Little Red Riding Hood
• Theme: Things are not always
what they appear to be OR don’t
go off into the woods alone
• Mood: What is the overall mood
of the story? Happy, sad,
suspenseful? For this story,
perhaps a little bit creepy.
• Point of View: In this story, it is
told in 3rd person omnipotent,
which mean the narrator is not a
character in the story and he
knows everything which will
happen
Review
1. The people or
animals about whom
the story is about are
the ___
Setting
2. The main story Characters
problem which the
Conflict
character must deal
with
3. The place and time
the story occurs in is
the ____
Review
4. The point in the story at 7. The feeling of the story,
which the conflict is usually stated in the
clearly solved ___ setting, such as spooky,
5. The lesson or universal happy or sad is the _____.
message the author
wants to teach the 8. The narrator of the story
reader ____ can be 1st or 3rd person.
6. The most intense point of This is called the _____ __
the story at which point _______
the conflict will clearly be
seen, for better or worse
is the ________ Theme Point of View
Mood Climax
Resolution
5. The lesson or universal
message the author wants to
teach the reader Theme
• The people or animals
about whom the story is 6. The most intense point of the
about are the Characters story at which point the conflict
will clearly be seen, for better or
• The main story problem worse is the Climax
which the character must
deal with is the Conflict 7. The feeling of the story,
usually stated in the setting,
• The place and time the such as spooky, happy or sad
story occurs in is the
Setting is the Mood.
• The point in the story at
which the conflict is clearly 8. The narrator of the story can
solved is the Resolution be 1st or 3rd person. This is
called the Point of View
