The peak of tension, plot, and character in a story.

The end of your story where you can tie up the final loose ends and bring the story to its happy or tragic ending.

Where you introduce your characters, establish the setting, and begin to introduce the primary conflict of your story.

The chain of events that make up your story.

A person or other being in a narrative.

A moment that sets your story into action. As it progresses, you’ll have multiple moments of conflict that escalate and create tension as the story moves toward the climax.

A central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.

The time the conflicts start resolving itself.

Turning point of a narrative; is its point of highest tension and drama.

Challenges or problems in a story.

It is the end of the story; it may tie up loose ends or bring readers a happy ending.

The time and geographic location within a narrative.

The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.