Creative and Critical Thinking: What If?

Creative and Critical Thinking

Elements of Fiction

  Learning Target(s):

  • Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact.
  • Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts.

In a few pages, a narrative can capture an event or sequence of events that sheds light on a larger situation. A story gives insight into the lives of its characters and into the lives of all people. This lesson focuses on the elements of fiction including:

  • Point of View, Style, Symbol
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Characters
  • Setting

In this section, you will be reading short stories and learning how to interpret fiction through these story elements.