Literary Elements 1
The main character in a story. Often labeled the "good guy".
What is the protagonist?
CONFLICT:
When Katniss felt forced to volunteer as tribute to keep Prim from having to go to the Hunger Games, what type of conflict was going on?
What is Person vs. Society?
(Katniss vs. The Capitol)
The use of clues to create suspense by giving the reader or audience hints of events to come.
What is foreshadowing?
The main idea of a work of literature; the message the author is trying to get across to the reader. The lesson or moral of the story.
What is the theme?
A contradiction between what something appears to mean and what it really means.
What is irony?
A character that stays the same throughout the entire story. They DO NOT go through any major character development.
What is a static character?
CONFLICT:
When Katniss pushed Peeta over into the flower urn and began arguing with him, what type of conflict was going on?
Person vs. Person
(Katniss vs. Peeta)
An interruption of the chronological sequence of an event of earlier occurrence.
What is a flashback?
Something that stands for something else; a thing that suggest more than its literal meaning.
The action that makes up a story from start to finish.
What is plot?
The main obstacle or problematic character that the protagonist faces. Often labeled as the "villain".
What is the antagonist?
CONFLICT:
At the end of chapter 12, we see Katniss in a desperate search for water. Without it, she will surely die. This is what type of conflict?
(Katniss vs. dehydration)
Which point of view is "The Hunger Games" told from?
What is 1st Person POV?
In chapter 12, Katniss tries on a pair of sunglasses. They mess with her vision, so she puts them away. Nothing more is said in chapter 12 about these glasses. This scene was a clear example of what?
What is foreshadowing?
When we first meet characters like Katniss, Prim, Gale, etc. and are introduced to the world they live in, we are in what part of the plot?
What is the exposition?
A character that goes through significant changes in personality, maturity, outlook, etc. throughout the course of a story.
What is a dynamic character?
CONFLICT:
On the rooftop the night before the Games begin, Peeta confesses to Katniss that he's struggling to deal with the fact that he will have to kill somebody. He doesn't want it to change who he is. What type of conflict is this?
Person vs. Self
(Peeta vs. His Identity/Humanity)
A genre of fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying pace or time travel and life on other planets.
What is Science Fiction?
"He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land" (Collins, 18).
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
("...swallowed up so much of the land.")
When Katniss remembers how she first met Peeta, she recalls an interaction they had outside the bakery some time ago. This is an example of what?
What is a flashback?
In "The Hunger Games", there are several dynamic and static characters.
LIST ONE DYNAMIC CHARACTER AND ONE STATIC CHARACTER from the story.
Dynamic: Who are Katniss and Peeta? (so far)
Static: Who are Effie, Haymich, Prim, Cinna, Portia, Claudius? (so far)
TONE vs. MOOD
Which is which?
1. The way the READER feels as a result of reading something.
2. The WRITER'S attitude and the overall feeling of a piece of writing.
1 = MOOD
2 = TONE
The location, time, and context in which the action of a literary work takes place.
What is the setting?
What is irony?
Bold behavior intended to intimidate or impress.
What is bravado?