characterization, a character's personality and character traits are described in the story, protagonist, the main character in the story; hero, antagonist, the character or force in conflict with the protagonist; villain, setting, the time and place of a story (when and where), role, someone or something's purpose in the story, conflict, clash or tension between opposing elements or ideas (problem), plot, the action of the story - it follows a rising and falling pattern, resolution, how the story ends or how the problem is solved, climax, the turning point in the story; it could be t he most exciting or intense part of the story, metamorphosis, how a character changes over the course of the story, theme, moral or lesson learned from the story; central message the author wants us to think about

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