literary elements
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LITERARY ELEMENTS
LITERATURE
• Express a language or the people.
IS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT GENRES
TragedyEpic
Comedy Novel
Creative nonfiction
Short story
• Literary elements are parts of literature that together help to capture all ideas that express the author.
THESE ARE
CHARACTERS
Refers to a person, animal or object in a story.
The end of a story, a character should change or grow somehow.
GOOD CHARACTERS ARE:
memorable
consistent
believable
grow or change over time
SETTING
• Is the time and location in which a story takes place.
THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS
Atmosphere: What feeling is created at the beginning of the
story?
Social conditions Weather conditions: Is it rainy, sunny?
Place: geographical location
Time: When is the story taking place?
THEME
• Central insight , but not every literary work has a theme.
• The theme may be the thoughts about a topic or view of human nature.
• - Love is blind.
• - Believe in yourself
• - People are afraid of change.
• - Don't judge a book by its cover
SOME SIMPLE EXAMPLES OF COMMON THEMES FROM LITERATURE:
CONFLICT
• It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move.
• Without conflict there is no plot.
• External:
• A struggle between the
character and the elements
of nature.
• Internal:
• A struggle between the
character and his/her
conscience.
CONFLICT CAN BE
PLOT
• It is the sequence of events in a story .
THERE ARE FIVE ESSENTIAL PARTS OF PLOT:
POINT OF VIEW
• The angle from which the story is told.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES
• First Person Narrator.
• Third person objetive narrator.
• Third person limited, or partially omniscient narrator.
• Third person omniscient narrator.
SYMBOLISM
Is something that represents
something elseIt can be a material object or
a written sign used to represent something
invisible.
EXAMPLE
TONE
• Encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
SOME MAY BE:
formal
informal
intimate
serious
ironic
IMAGERY
• It refers to the language or words that appeal to the senses.