| A | B |
| PLOT | Place and time the story takes place. |
| FORESHADOWING | People, animals or other creatures that have character traits. |
| CLIMAX | The story line, tells what happens and how it happened. |
| POINT OF VIEW | Central message, summarized into a statement. |
| CHARACTER | Problem with the rising action. |
| CONFLICT | Most exciting part of the story. |
| THEME | Position from which the story is told. |
| SETTING | Hint of what's coming in the story. |
| TONE | Bad guys. |
| ANTAGONIST | Good guys. |
| SYMBOLISM | Explains how the conflict is explained. |
| STYLE | What the author is feeling towards the subject. |
| PROTAGONIST | Symbols representing ideas and emotion in a story. |
| RESOLUTION | Background information of character settings. |
| FALLING ACTION | The way the author writes the story; humor, serious. |
| EXPOSITION | End of the story. |