DEFINITIONS 

Fiction Novel is a non-factual text, written to entertain or convey the author’s message or point of view. Its elements are theme, plot, character, setting and style.

Theme is what the novelist is trying to tell the reader, implicitly conveyed. For instance, immorality has no place in a democracy.

Character is generally a person who exists within a novel. It can also be a persona or an entity. The central or main character is the protagonist. The opposing character is the antagonist. Additional characters interacting with them are minor characters. 

Plot or storyline, is an ordered sequence of events and actions that constitute the novel. It has a beginning middle and end. The first few chapters may deal with the initiating event. The next in succession are the rising action, the conflict, the climax, falling action, leading to the ultimate resolution.

Setting is the place and time of the story. The place may be real or fictitious.

Style encompasses how a novelist presents the big picture, selects a narrator, and his command of the language with respect to grammar, sentence length variations, paragraph size, chapter arrangement, and other elements such as imagery, tone etc.

Suspension of disbelief is the reader’s momentary acceptance of the story or plot as believable, no matter how implausible it may otherwise be in real life.