Story Elements
Characterisation
– Characters can have special powers.
– Animals act like people (animorphisism).
Setting
– Place is imaginary or of another world or universe.
– Time is anytime or no time.
– Fantasy time (Once upon a time sets the stage and They lived happily ever after closes the tale.) any time or any place, timeless or placeless, or long long ago.
– Time travel is possible.
Plot
– Varied, but usually surprising twists or developments.
– Involving situations not possible in our realistic world.
– Full of action and follows specific and simple patterns.
– The plot starts right out with fast moving action that grabs the audience’s interest and keeps it.
– Conflicts are usually resolved with great deeds or acts of human kindness related to good and bad/evil.
Common Themes
– Good versus bad or evil.
– Uses magic or other ideas to achieve the extremely impossible.
– Security
– Fear of leaving home
– Fear of not being loved or giving love
– Reflect basic values and concerns of different cultures
– Good and evil
– Right and wrong
– Justice and injustice
– Happiness, kindness, friendship, loyalty
– Good triumphant over evil
– Love and loyalty
– Love and loyalty can transform …
– Discuss basic values of people
Style
– Use of magic or possibly powers that have no scientific bases yet verified by repeatable evidence.
– Use of mental powers or technologies that are not possible or not yet discovered.
Tone
– Feel that in a magical world the story is plausible.
– Despite the availability of magic the struggle of the characters seems authentic and failure an option.
Point of View
Could be any. Often third person narrative
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