Elements of Fiction (definitions and examples).ppt

This presentation has all the elements of fiction. It shows the Freytag pyramid. It can be used in any English classroom, mainly elementary or middle school. It can also work for ESL students as the language and content are not too advanced. It has the example of the Three Little Pigs for the five parts of a plot. It includes definitions of characters, setting, conflict, plot, and theme. It is for use in English class and any language arts class. Feel free to edit it.

1. Elements Of Fiction
Ms. Meyers Santiago
English Class

2. CHARACTERS
Character is a person or an animal that takes
part in the action of a literary work.
•The main character, or protagonist, is the most
important character in a story
•This character often changes in some important
way as a result of the story’s events.

3. SETTING
Setting is where the story takes place.
•Time:
•past, present or future.
•decade, year, season, month, week, or time of day
•Place:
•region, country, state, or town
•social, economic, and cultural environment

4. Conflict
Conflictis a struggle between opposing forces.
•Characters in conflict form the basis of fiction
stories and novels.
•The characters try to solve a conflict and their
actions in solving these problems is what makes the
story worth reading or watching.

5. Plot
Plotis the events that make up a story. It
is all of the action that takes place during a
story. The plot includes only the most
important events.

6. Plot
Five parts of the plot:
•Exposition (Development)
•Rising Action
•Climax
•Falling Action
•Resolution

8. Plot: Exposition
Expositionis the way in which the story begins.
•The exposition is the part where the characters, the
setting, and the conflict are introduced.
Developmentrefers to the moments when the
conflict increases after an inciting incident, which
introduces the central.

9. Plot: RisingAction
Rising action is the series of conflicts or crisis
in the story before the climax. The characters
start having problems and move to solve these
problems.

10. Plot: Climax
Climax is the point of high point of suspense or
the most intense moment of a story.
•During the climax, the plot changes for the better or
the worse.
•The events that make up rising action lead up to the
climax and are then followed by the falling action.

11. Plot: FallingAction
Falling action is when the problems
begin to resolve.
•All the events that happen after the
climax.
•Leads to the resolution.

12. Plot: Resolution
Resolutionis the way in which the story
concludes or the problems are solved and in
which an general insight is expressed.
Also known as the endingor the denouement.

14. Theme
The theme is the central message or
insight into life that a story reveals.
It is what the writer of the story wants
the reader to understand and remember.

15. THEME
“Love” or “happiness” are not a theme that is just a
topic. A theme gives you a message about the topic of the
story.
Examples of a theme in a story:
•Honesty makes you vulnerable.
•We can only be happy if we learn to love one another.
•Being greedy is dangerous.

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