| A | B | 
| What happens in the story | Plot | 
| Provides needed background information | Exposition | 
| Struggles between or within characters.             ( Problem) | Conflict | 
| The par of the plot in which the conflict intensifies | Rising Action | 
| Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling action | Elements of plot | 
| The par of the plot in which the conflict intensifies | Rising Action | 
| chain of events that take place in a story | Plot | 
| The turning point of action when the reader’s interest is at its highest point | Climax | 
| The action after the climax in which the conflict is often resolved. | Falling Action | 
| The time and place in which the events occur the place can be real or imaginary | Setting | 
| A theme is a central idea or message in a work of literature. (lesson learned) | Theme | 
| Logical guesses based on clues in the text and common sense. | Inferences | 
| Matching the timing | Synchronizing | 
| People animals or other things involved in the plot of the story | Characters | 
| Where and when the story takes place | Settng | 
| Who is telling the story. ( 1st person or 3rd Person) | Point of view. | 
| when a character from inside the story is telling the story | 1st person | 
| WHen you are writing from a narrator point of view | 3rd person | 
| The message that the author is trying to convey | Theme |