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Literary Elements

Literary Elements. What parts make up a a story? http://members.tripod.com/dscorpio/images/literary_elements.ppt. Story Grammar. Setting Characters Plot Climax Theme Resolution Denouement. Details that describe: Furniture Scenery Customs Transportation Clothing Dialects Weather

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Literary Elements

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  1. Literary Elements What parts make up a a story? http://members.tripod.com/dscorpio/images/literary_elements.ppt

  2. Story Grammar • Setting • Characters • Plot • Climax • Theme • Resolution • Denouement

  3. Details that describe: Furniture Scenery Customs Transportation Clothing Dialects Weather Time of day Time of year Setting Time and place are where the action occurs

  4. Elements of a Setting

  5. To create a mood or atmosphere To show a reader a different way of life To make action seem more real To be the source of conflict or struggle To symbolize an idea We left the home place behind, mile by slow mile, heading for the mountains, across the prairie where the wind blew forever. At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. That was no covered Conestoga, like Pa’s folks came West in, but just an old farm wagon, drawn by one weary horse, creaking and rumbling westward to the mountains, toward the little woods town where Pa thought he had an old uncle who owned a little two-bit sawmill. The Functions of a Setting Taken from “The Day the Sun Came Out” by D. Johnson

  6. Types of Characters • People or animals • Major characters • Minor characters • Round characters • Flat characters

  7. Characterization • A writer reveals what a character is like and how the character changes throughout the story. (Dynamic vs. static character) • Two primary methods of characterization: • Direct- writer tells what the character is like • Indirect- writer shows what a character is like by describing what the character looks like, by telling what the character says and does, and by what other characters say about and do in response to the character.

  8. Direct Characterization …And I don’t play the dozens or believe in standing around with somebody in my face doing a lot of talking. I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I’m a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, which is how I got the name Squeaky. From “Raymond’s Run” by T. Bambara

  9. Indirect Characterization The old man bowed to all of us in the room. Then he removed his hat and gloves, slowly and carefully. Chaplin once did that in a picture, in a bank--he was the janitor. From “Gentleman of Rio en Medio” by J. Sedillo

  10. Elements of Character

  11. Factors in Analyzing Characters • Physical appearance of character • Personality • Background/personal history • Motivation • Relationships • Conflict • Does character change?

  12. Plot Plot is what happens and how it happens in a narrative. A narrative is any work that tells a story, such as a short story, a novel, a drama, or a narrative poem.

  13. Parts of a Plot • Inciting incident – event that gives rise to conflict (opening situation) • Development- events that occur as result of central conflict (rising action) • Climax- highest point of interest or suspense of story • Resolution- when conflict ends • Denouement- when characters go back to their life before the conflict

  14. Diagram of Plot Climax Resolution Development/Rising Action Introduction Denouement Inciting incident/Opening situation

  15. Special Techniques of Plot • Suspense- excitement or tension • Foreshadowing- hint or clue about what will happen in story (sometimes in the title) • Flashback- interrupts the normal sequence of events to tell about something that happened in the past • Surprise Ending- conclusion that reader does not expect

  16. Conflict • Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces • Every plot must contain some kind of conflict • Stories can have more than one conflict • Conflicts can be external or internal • External conflict- outside force may be person, group, animal, nature, or a nonhuman obstacle • Internal conflict- takes place in a character’s mind

  17. Theme • A central message, concern, or insight into life expressed through a literary work • Can be expressed by one or two sentence statement about human beings or about life • May be stated directly or implied • Interpretation uncovers the theme

  18. Example of Theme “It was strange what poverty and fear of hunger could do to a sense of decency.” (p. 24) From No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt

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