1. Plot: sequence of events in the story  (event, rising action, climax, denoument)

2. Character:  textual representation of a human being or another actor (animal, ghost, etc.) in the story

3. Setting: environment; time and place where the story takes place

4. Narrative point of view: who is telling the story and from what perspective (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd person limited, 3rd person omniscient)

5. Style, Tone, Language:  Style is the way in which the story is told.  There is a certain tone to the way in which the story is told, or moments in the story.  Diction.

6. Figurative Language/Symbolism and Image:  Figurative Language: hyperbole: exaggeration.  personification: giving inanimate objects human or animal characteristics.  symbolism: things with a  special meaning.  metaphor:  _____________  similes:  use like or as to compare two unlike objects/ideas/things  metonymy: using a part to symbolize a whole.

7. Theme:  Death, Marriage, Sexism, Freedom, Repression (“Story of an Hour”)

8. “Story”:  what the whole thing is about

9. Time:how much time elapses in the story; (chronological time and narrative time)

10.  Storyworld:  the world the story is taking place in; it is a world that you construct in your mind to make sense of the story