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Elements of Literature
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Characterization
The methods an author uses to acquaint a reader with the characters in a work. He or she might…
• describe the character’s physical traits and personality
• report the character’s speech and behavior• give opinions and the reactions of other characters
toward this individual• reveal the character by describing the character’s
feelings and thoughts.
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Protagonist• A protagonist is considered to be the main
character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. It may also be referred to as the "hero" of a work. The action usually revolves around the protagonist.
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Antagonist
• The character in a work of literature who opposes the main character.
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Types of Characters
• Dynamic Character- a character who develops or changes as a result of the actions of the plot.
• Static Character – a character who remains basically unchanged throughout a story.
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Conflict
• A struggle between opposing forces; conflicts can be external (outside forces) or internal (within a characters mind).
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External Conflict (Struggle with an outside force.)
• Man-vs-man
• Man-vs-nature
• Man-vs-animal
• Man-vs-society
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Internal Conflict (Takes place in the character’s mind.)
• Man-vs-Self
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Setting
• The time and the place of the story or novel.
• A story can be set in a realistic or imaginary place and can occur in the past, present,or future.
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Point of View• The perspective from which the
story is told.• First Person- ‘I’: The narrator
of the story is a character in the story that is telling the story from his own personal view. The story is told from the point of view of ‘I.’
• Second Person: When the author speaks directly to the reader.
• Third Person Limited- ‘He, she it”: Told like a reporter reporting the news or by an outsider who can see into the mind of one of the characters. This point of view can also be told by an outsider who can see into the minds of many characters (all knowing).
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Plot
• What happens 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so on.
• The plot centers on at least one major problem called a conflict.
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Five Main Parts of the Plot• Exposition or beginning: setting
and introduction of main characters
• Rising Action: Initial incident, suspense, shows conflict or struggle, complications, details, sequence of events
• Climax: Greatest emotional response, turning point of the story
• Falling Action: Following the climax, the intensity of the story may subside. The falling action describes the results of the major events as the action winds down
• Resolution: Conflict, crisis, or struggle resolved
Climax
Resolution
Rising Action Falling Action
Exposition
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Exposition• The opening of a short story
or novel. It provides background information that the reader needs to know.
• It introduces the characters, describes the setting, and may recap important events before the action of the story.
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Rising Action
• The chain of events become more complex. The actions and feelings of the characters intensify as their problems become more complicated.
Rising Action
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Climax
• The highest point of interest
• Where most action takes place in the store
• Involves an important event,decision, or discovery that affects the final outcome.
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Falling Action
• Following the climax, the intensity of the story may subside.
• The falling action describes the results of the major events as the action winds down.
Falling action
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Resolution
• The final part of the story.
• It tells how the story ends. All the loose ends are tied up.
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Theme
• The main idea that the author wishes to The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work. The theme includes the topic of the writing and a viewpoint or opinion about the topic. For example:
• Greed might be the subject. The theme might be, “Greed is destructive and evil.”
• Fighting might be the subject. The theme might be, “Fighting solves nothing.”
• It can be Universal;applying to you and the world.
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Mood• A feeling or emotions that a writing or piece
of literature stirs in the reader.Factors that
Influence Mood:
Setting
Details
Images
Description
Mood Words:
Hopelessness
Optimisim
Loneliness
Despair
Longing
Enthusiam
Happiness
Peacefulness
Terror
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Tone• The approach or
attitude that the writer takes toward the subject of the writing.
Serene Hostile PlayfulAngry Serious TenderAmusing Informative Outraged Argumentative
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Symbolism• Symbolism is using an object or a thing to stand for or to
substitute for another thing. A symbol may be an object a person, and action, or a situation that suggests a meaning beyond its obvious meaning. For example:
A heart might be used to symbolize love and
affection
A knife might be used to symbolize
a robber, warrior, or hunter
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Irony
•Irony is the contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
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Imagery
• Imagery can be created by details in the story that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Sweet, slow drops of rich orange juice drip from the corners of my mouth and drool off my chin.
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Suspense• Suspense is created through
the reader’s uncertainty about the character’s ability to solve a problem, conflict, or crisis.
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Figurative Language• Figurative language
uses comparisons to express a relationship between essentially unlike thingsSimile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Personification
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Examples of Figurative Language
• Simile: Compares two unlike things using like or as: My heart soared like an eagle.
• Metaphor: Am implied comparison between two relatively unlike things without using like or as: The jealous girls were a bunch of tigers ready to pounce.
• Hyperbole: The comparison by using an exaggerated statement: I’m so tired, I could sleep a hundred years!
• Personification: Compares by giving human characteristics to non-human things: The river reached for me with icy fingers.
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Flashback• A device that allows the writer to present
events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Flashback techniques include memories, dreams, stories of the past told by characters, or even authorial sovereignty.
• Flashback is useful for exposition, to fill in the reader about a character or place, or about the background to a conflict.
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Foreshadowing• An author’s way
of hinting or giving clues to the reader of events or developments that might come ater in the story.