Goals

1. Goals • I can statement/s: I can read & analyze literary elements (character, setting, plot, or conflict) of a text. • I can explain how the text uses literary elements. • I can understand and synthesize new words and phrases. • Character Objective: I can explain how I can demonstrate Leadership.

2. A Quick Look at Elements of Fiction

3. Setting The time and place where a story takes place. Examples:

4. Examples of Setting • Finding Nemo: the sea

5. Examples of Setting • A Christmas Carol: 1840s London

6. Examples of Setting • Do The Right Thing: A hot summer day on a block in Brooklyn, NY

7. Examples of Setting • Personal examples from things you have seen or read?

8. Characters • Protagonist: The main character of the story Examples: Walter Younger from A Raisin in the Sun Marlin from Finding Nemo

9. Characters • Antagonist: The opposition or force that creates conflict for the Protagonist Examples: the ocean in Finding Nemo The Red Skull in Captain America

10. Characters • Minor Characters • Assist the Protagonist but do not grow like the main character • Examples: Chewbacca in Star Wars

11. Characters • Static: characters never change • Dynamic: characters change and come to a realization over the course of story • Stereotype: a character that is supposed to represent an entire culture due to his/her traits.

12. Point of View • 1st Person P.O.V: Uses “I” • Told through the Protagonist’s eyes • 2nd Person P.O.V: Uses “You” • Told through minor character’s eyes • 3rd Person P.O.V: Uses “He, She, It” • Told through an omniscient (all knowing) narrator

13. Plot • Five parts • Exposition • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Resolution

14. Plot • Exposition: The introduction. The characters, setting, and conflicts are introduced. Example: The kids decide to go to the haunted mansion on the hill where the killer supposedly lives.

15. Plot • Rising Action: The conflict rises through a series of problems or issues. Examples: The kids discover that the killer still lives in the mansion, and he proceeds to kill them all one by one.

16. Plot • Climax: The point at which the conflict is resolved. The highest point of intensity. Example: The hero kills the villain.

17. Plot • Falling Action: The effects of the Climax are scene Example: The hero realizes that he or she has killed the villain and tries to relax.

18. Plot • Resolution: The end of the story where everything is tied up. Example: The hero walks off into the sunset…or dies. If a resolution is sad, it’s called Denouement

19. Resolutions • There are three types of Resolutions: • Cliffhanger • No resolution is given • Closed • No questions are left • Open • Many questions are left

20. Conflict • Conflict: The struggle or battle that drives the story • Two types of conflict: • Internal • External

21. Internal Conflict • Only one type: • Person vs. Self • Example: The protagonist fights his addiction

22. External Conflict • Four types: • Person vs. Person • Protagonist vs. another person • Person vs. Society • Protagonist vs. group of people • Person vs. Nature • Protagonist vs. environment • Person vs. Fate • Protagonist vs. God or his destiny

23. Theme • The moral or message of a story.

24. Tone Vs. Mood • Tone: The author’s attitude toward his/her subject • Mood: the emotional state or feeling you get from the literature

25. Other Terms • Foreshadowing: Hints as to what is coming later in the story • Personification: Giving human qualities to non-human things • Symbolism: an object, place, or person who stands for something else.