Characters and how we get to know them:
1. Through the author's physical description of them
2. Their actions
3. Their words
4. Their inner thoughts
5. Through what other characters say and think about them
Plot - A pattern of events that develops from the interactions between characters.
A plot is a pattern of events in a cause and effect relationship.
1. Cause - Things that make something happen.
2. Effect - What happens because something was done.
Conflicts - The problems the characters encounter. Their conflicts can be:
1. External - conflict with others and with nature
2. Internal - conflict within themselves
Setting - Time and place of the story
Theme - The meaning behind the events and the characters' actions.
Narrative - The Point of View and Verbal tense of the narrator. How much the narrator intrudes into the story.
Style of Writing - Rhetorical devices, word choice, and sentence structure.
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