Name: ________________ Date: ___________

L1A/Ms. Garriga

Author: person who wrote the story.

Illustrations: picture or drawings used to decorate a story.

Text: words in a story.

Setting: the time and place of a story.

Characters: the people or animals in the story.

Protagonist: The main character in the story
Antagonist: The character or force that opposes the protagonist.

Point of View: the point from which the story is told.

 First Person The narrator is a character in the story. This narrator tells the story
by using the pronouns I and we.

 Third-Person: The narrator is an outsider who can talk about only what he sees
and hears.

Plot: The plot is what happens in the story, including the conflict, the events that lead
to solving the problem, and the solution.

Conflict The conflict is the problem of a story. It is the most important part of the story.
There are four types of conflicts.

 Man versus Man: Conflict between two characters.

 Man versus Nature: A problem with the forces of nature.
 Man versus Society: A character has a conflict with the customs of the society.
 Man versus Self: A conflict that takes place in the mind of the character.
Simile: A figure of speech that compared two different things by using the
words like or as.
Example: She is as beautiful as a flower.
He eats like a pig.

Metaphor: A figure of speech that says that one thing is a different thing.

Example: She is a flower.

He is a pig.

Personification: A figure of speech, which gives the qualities of

a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.

Example: The rain kissed my cheeks.

Imagery: The use of descriptive words and phrases to create pictures or images in the
reader’s mind.

“It was Fall, and the giant tree in front of the house was full of
orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to fall on the
ground.”

“Jessica entered the warm kitchen. He smelled the

sweet aroma of hot chocolate and remembered his
family in Texas.”