Category:Story components

Elements of fiction

Just as a painter uses color and line to create a painting, an author uses the elements of fiction to create a story:

The elements of fiction are: character, plot, setting, theme, and style. Of these five elements, character is the who, plot is the what, setting is the where and when, and style is the manner in which the material is presented.

Components of Style
For each piece of fiction, the author makes many choices, consciously or subconsciously, ibs which combine to form the writer's unique style. The components of style are numerous, but include point of view, choice of narrator, fiction-writing mode, person and tense, grammar, punctuation, word usage, sentence length and structure, paragraph length and structure, tone, imagery, chapter usage, and title selection.

Point of View
Point of view is from whose consciousness the reader hears, sees, and feels the story.

Tone
Tone is the mood that the author establishes within the story.

Theme is the broad idea, message, or lesson of a story.

People
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Audience

Suspension of Disbelief

Suspension of disbelief is the reader's temporary acceptance of story elements as believable, regardless of how implausible they may seem in real life.

The audience creates Genera through its demands.

Publisher

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