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Draw story elements based on the topic 'A personal story where you impacted the events'

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Instructor: Catherine Rose

Story elements are not just individual parts of a story that function on their own. In this lesson, we explore the basic elements of a story and how they interact and shape one another to affect the story. Updated: 12/30/2019

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Story Elements

When you're reading, you encounter various story elements, such as plot, setting, character, conflict, and theme. While each element is individually essential to the story, how they interact with one another is even more important to what happens and how the story ends. Change one element, and you have changed the entire story. Let's examine how these story elements function and interact with one another.

In order to discuss how the elements of a story interact with one another, we must review how each element functions within the story. Check out these definitions:

Plot: Plot is what happens in the story. It includes the major events of the story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Setting: Setting includes the time and place of the story's events. The author may give you very specific times and places or clues that require you to infer the time and place.

Character: Characters are those who play a role in the story. They can be major characters around which the story revolves or minor characters that are only present to interact with the main characters.

Conflict: Conflict represents the problem in the story. It can be internal if the character is battling with them or external if they are battling outside forces, such as another character or nature.

Theme: Theme is the main point of the story. It can include what you take away from the story, what you learn about life because of the story, or simply a main idea presented through the events of the story.





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Interaction of Story Elements

Now that you understand the basics of story elements, think about how they interact with one another to help drive the events and outcomes of the story. While each can be studied individually, it is when they work together that their real power emerges.

Elements of a story have a basic cause and effect relationship. Each one affects the other, and the change, addition, or removal of even one element can dramatically impact the story. As a reader, you can examine the interactions of these elements in an if/then situation as well. If the character is an astronaut, then they should be placed in a spaceship. You would not expect to see that same astronaut in the middle of the ocean, so the setting and character go together.

An author will choose a specific setting because the where and when of a story has a direct impact on how the characters will think, act, perceive their situation, and even interact with one another. Furthermore, the presence or absence of one character could dramatically change the conflict or plot of the story. If the conflict is changed, then the theme becomes something altogether different.

Story Element Interaction Examples

Now, let's look at a specific story example and how the elements interact with one another:

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Story elements based on the topic 'A personal story where you impacted the events'

• A plot is a carefully thought-out sequence of actions with a beginning, middle, and end. Short stories typically have a single plot, making them easy to read in one sitting. Plot has five fundamental components: 1) Exposition (introduction) - Characters, setting, and backstory are provided at the beginning of the story.
• The five main elements of a story are the characters, place, plot, conflict, and resolution. These crucial components ensure that the story flows smoothly and that the reader can follow the action as it develops.
• Then, a drama is broken down into five acts, or portions, that some regard to as a dramatic arc: an introduction, a rise to the climax, a return to or fall from that climax, and a catastrophe.
• refers to the perspective the work takes on its subject and audience. The tone of a piece of writing can be lighthearted, sombre, optimistic, humorous, intimate, arrogant, objective, and any other number of wonderful adjectives used to express an attitude toward anything.

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