LITERARY ELEMENTS- WEEEEEEEEEEEEEK 2.pptx

LITERARY ELEMENTS

1. Welcome to 21 st Century Literature Class!

2. CHARACTER A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. Writers use characters to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot line.

3. TYPES OF CHARACTER Characters Based on Roles PROTAGONIST The protagonist is the character who is central to the story. Though often the good guy, the protagonist can also be the bad guy (or the anti-hero) in the story.

4. ANTAGONIST The antagonist, often termed as the villain of the story, is the character whom the protagonist must confront and defy for victory.

5. CHARACTERS BASED ON PERSONALITIES Flat characters have few but easily recognizable traits that make them stereotypical characters. FLAT

6. ROUND A round character is someone who has more facets to her/his personality than a flat character.

7. STATIC A static character's personality does not change throughout the piece of work, and save for the initial introduction, there is not much to learn about such a character.

8. DYNAMIC A dynamic character is someone whose personality changes through the course of writing, due to a change in the situation or the plot.

9. CONFIDANTE The confidant is someone the main character confides in, and it is through these confessions that the personality of the main character is revealed.

10. FOIL The foil is someone who is used as a contrasting character to enhance the personality of another character.

11. PLOT the major events that move the action in a narrative. It is the sequence of major events in a story, usually in a cause-effect relation.

12. PLOT STRUCTURE Is the arrangement of events in a narrative work. Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling action denouement

13. Exposition This is your book’s introduction, where you introduce your characters, establish the setting, and begin to introduce the primary conflict of your story.   Rising Action The rising action normally begins with an inciting incident, or 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.

14. Climax The climax is the peak of tension, plot, and character in your story. It’s the moment that your reader has been waiting for—so make it exciting! Falling Action Now that you’ve reached the peak of your story, it’s time to start moving toward a more satisfying conclusion. This is the time to start resolving conflicts and subplots so your story doesn’t feel rushed in the last few chapters. This is also where any conflicts that arose as a result of the climax can start being resolved. Resolution/Denouement Finally, the resolution is the end of your story where you can ti e up the final loose ends and bring your story to its happy or tragic ending.

15. POINT OF VIEW Point of view is the writer’s way of deciding  who  is telling the story  to whom .  Establishing a clear point of view is important because it dictates how your reader interprets characters, events, and other important details .

16. First-person point of view  I ,  me / my ,  we ,  us , or  our   Second-person point of view Second-person point of view uses the pronoun  you .

17. Third-person point of view In third-person point of view, the narrator has the ability to know everything. You’ll see the pronouns  he / his ,  she / her ,  they / them / their , and  it / its  in third-person point of view.

18. THIRD-PERSON OMNISCIENT third-person  omniscient point of view is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the  characters  in the story.

19. THIRD-PERSON LIMITED OMNISCIENT The third person limited point of view is  where the narrator tells the story from the perspective of a single protagonist, referring to them by name or using a third person pronoun such as they/she/he .

20. SETTING Your setting is where, when, and to some degree how your story takes place. It’s also your character’s relationship with the world around them.

21. THEME Theme(s) -- The central and dominating idea (or ideas) in a literary work. The term also indicates a message or moral implicit in any work of art.