Setting: Time and Place

Protagonist: Tries to achieve a goal

Antagonist: Tries to stop the protagonsit

Conflict

The conflict has been resolved.

In a cliffhanger, there is no resolution

DIrect: Writer tells how the character is

Indirect: Writer describes what the character is by dialogue, appearance, actions, etc. 

Static: The character has no change throughout the story

Dynamic: The character changes throughout the story. 

Flat: one or two personality traits.

Round: The character possesses many traits and qualities.

Protagonist: Tries to achieve a goal

Antagonist: Tries to stop the protagonist from achieving the goal

The reasons behind the characters actions. 

Where the story takes place

Time frame

Settings can explain the conflict, introduce characters, express tone, create a mood. 

Point of View

Third- Person limited

Third Person omniscient

First person

Third person limited: only reveals what the characters see's or experiences.

Third person omniscient: Reveals everything of a character. What he thinks and what he feels. 

First person: "I", narrative story. 

The opposite of what we expected.

It seems to mock humans intention. 

Ambiguity

Ambiguity makes us take our own interpretation of the story. 

it offers us a choice of more than one meaning or interpretation. 

External conflict: the person is versus another person, society, nature or machine

Internal: the person is versus itself. 

Gives a meaning to the story

All elements of the story should add up to the theme.

Theme has to apply to life outside of the story. 

A summary of the plot

The moral

The subject of the story

Their

They're

There

Their: meaning it belongs to them.

They're: They are

There: a location

To

Too

Two

To: preposition

Too: excesively, also

Two: the number

Placate