| A | B |
| Character | A person in the story |
| Characterization | The author's special way of explaining the people in his story - telling us about their personalities and motives |
| Conflict | The problem in a story which triggers the action |
| Mood | The feeling(s) a reader gets from a story: happy, sad etc. |
| Narrator | The person or character who is telling the story |
| Plot | The action of a story |
| Point of view | The angle from which a story is told |
| Setting | The time and place of a story |
| Style | The way the author chooses to tell the story |
| Theme | The subject or message being written about or discussed |