# data[].attributes.body
Setting is the “where and when” of a story.  It is the time and place  during which the story takes place.

# data[].attributes.body
FUNCTION OF A SETTINGS

# data[].attributes.body
To create a mood or atmosphere

To show a reader a different way of life

To make action seems more real

To be the source of conflict or struggle

To symbolize an idea

# data[].attributes.body
The person, animals, and things participating in a story

# data[].attributes.body
Plot is the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.  It is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. It shows arrangement of events and actions within a story.

# data[].attributes.body
Exposition- introduction; characters, setting and conflict (problem) are introduced

Rising Action- events that occur as result of central conflict

Climax- highest point of interest or suspense of a story

Falling Action- tension eases; events show the results of how the main character begins to resolve the conflict

Resolution- loose ends are tied up; the conflict is solved

# data[].attributes.body
CHARACTER VS SELF

# data[].attributes.headline
Protagonist and Antagonist are used to describe characters. 

# data[].attributes.subject
Protagonist and Antagonist are used to describe characters. 

# data[].attributes.body
The protagonist is the main character of the story, the one with whom the reader identifies. This person is not necessary “good”.

# data[].attributes.body
The antagonist is the force in opposition of the protagonist; this person may not be “bad” or “evil”, but he/she opposes the protagonist in a significant way

# data[].attributes.body
External conflict- outside force may be person, group, animal, nature, or a nonhuman obstacle

Internal conflict- takes place in a character’s mind

# data[].attributes.body
Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot. It is a problem that must be solved; an issue between the protagonist and antagonist forces. It forms the basis of the plot.

# data[].attributes.body
CHARACTER VS CHARACTER

CHARACTER VS NATURE

CHARACTER VS SOCIETY

CHARACTER VS FATE

# data[].attributes.body
The theme is the  central, general message,  the main idea, the controlling topic  about life or people the author wants to get across through a literary work. To discover the theme of a story, think big. What big message is the author trying to say about the world in which we live?

What is this story telling me about how life works, or how people behave?

The practical lesson ( moral) that we learn from a story after we read it. The lesson that teaches us what to do or how to behave after you have learned something from a story or something that has happened to you.

Example: The lesson or teaching of the story is be careful when you’re offered something for nothing.