Literary Elements 1
What is a setting?
Time and place a story takes place.
What is a character?
Person, animal, or creature in a story.
The events that occur after the climax and before the resolution.
Falling Action
What are character traits?
Descriptive adjectives that tell us specific qualities of a character.
Give an example of character traits.
Examples:
Tall, short, sweet, honest, grumpy, etc.
What is a theme?
The lesson, central idea, or message that the author is trying to convey to the reader.
The events that occur between the exposition and the climax.
Rising Action
What is a conflict?
The problem in a story.
What is a plot?
The series of events in a story.
What is a climax?
The most intense moment in the story.
What is an antagonist?
The "bad" guy in a story. The force opposite of the main character.
Type of conflict where the main character battles the beliefs and actions of a group of people.
Man vs. Society
What is a protagonist?
The "good" guy in a story. The main character.
What is third person point of view?
A narrative technique where the narrator is not a character in the story and uses pronouns like "he," "she," or "they."
Type of conflict where the main character battles natural forces.
Man vs. Nature
What is point of view?
Who is telling the story. Who is narrating it.
Type of conflict where the main character battles internally with themselves.
Man vs. Self
What is First Person Point of View?
One of the story’s characters is narrating the literary work.
The feeling a reader feels when reading a piece of writing.
Mood
What is tone?
The author's attitude towards what they are writing about.
What is second person point of view?
Utilizes the pronoun “you” to address the reader and bring them into the action of the story.
The end of a narrative.
Resolution
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A good author includes descriptions of the setting using.......
The five senses
Type of conflict where the main character battles another character.
Man vs. Man