1. Theme

2. Theme: Central or dominate idea
Extends beyond the story and applies to the world outside of fiction
Readers background knowledge, values and beliefs play a part in determining theme

3. How to find a theme Title Narrators or characters statement
Arrangements of events
Central conflict
Point of view (unreliable narrator)
Symbols (names, places literary devices)
Changes in a character

4. Plot – The way in which the events in a story are arranged.
Protagonist – Principle character in a work of fiction. Usually the person trying to accomplish something
Antagonist – Character who is on conflict with the protagonist

5. Conflict – The struggle between opposing forces.
Narrative Arc – the trajectory of the conflict. The high point is the crisis the end is the resolution.