A Quick Look at

Setting

The time and place where a story takes place.

Examples:

Examples of Setting

 Finding Nemo: the sea

Examples of Setting

 A Christmas Carol: 1840s London

Examples of Setting

 Do The Right Thing: A hot summer day on a block in Brooklyn, NY

Examples of Setting

 Personal examples from things you have seen or read?

Characters

 Protagonist: The main character of the story

Examples: Walter Younger from A Raisin in the Sun

Marlin from Finding Nemo

Characters

 Antagonist: The opposition or force that creates conflict for the Protagonist

Examples: the ocean in Finding Nemo The Red Skull in Captain America

Characters

 Minor Characters   Assist the Protagonist but do not grow like

the main character ○  Examples: Chewbacca in Star Wars

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.

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

Plot

 Five parts   Exposition  Rising Action  Climax   Falling Action  Resolution

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.

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.

Plot

 Climax: The point at which the conflict is resolved. The highest point of intensity.

Example: The hero kills the villain.

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.

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

Resolutions

 There are three types of Resolutions:  Cliffhanger ○  No resolution is given

 Closed ○  No questions are left

 Open ○  Many questions are left

Conflict

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

Internal Conflict

 Only one type:   Person vs. Self ○  Example: The protagonist fights his addiction

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

Theme

 The moral or message of a story.

Tone Vs. Mood

 Tone: The author’s attitude toward his/her subject

 Mood: the emotional state or feeling you get from the literature

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.