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Elements of Fiction
Setting
Character
Plot
Point of View
ThemeSymbolism
Other
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Setting: the time, place and period in which theaction takes place.
The Bean Trees:Arizona/Oklahoma
1980s.The Catcher inthe Rye:NewYork, 1940s
Lord of the Flies:deserted island, the
future.
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Setting:can help in the portrayal of character.it was so quiet and lonesome out, eventhough it was Saturday night. I didnt seehardly anybody on the street. Now andthen you just saw a man and a girl crossing
the street with their arms around eachothers waists and all, or a bunch ofhoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, allof them laughing like hyenas at something
you could bet wasnt funny. New Yorksterrible when somebody laughs on thestreet very late at night. You can hear itfor miles. It makes you feel so lonesomeand depressed.
The Catcher in the Rye (81)
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Setting:in some works of fiction action is so closelyrelated to setting that the plot is directed by it.
The new manstands, looking a minute, to getthe set-up of the day room. One side of theroom younger patients, known as Acutes becausethe doctors figure them still sick enough to befixed, practice arm wrestling and card tricksAcross the room from the Acutes are the cullsof the Combines product, the Chronics. Not inthe hospital, these to get fixed, but just to keep
them from walking around the street giving theproduct a bad name.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (19)
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Setting:can establish the atmosphere of a work.
During the whole of a dull, dark, andsoundless day in the autumn of the
year, when the clouds hungoppressively low in the heavens, I hadbeen passing alone, on horseback,through a singularly dreary tract ofcountry.
The Fall of the House ofUsher by Edgar Allan Poe
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Character
The people (or animals, things, etc. presented as people)
appearing in a literary work.
Types of Characters:
Round Character:convincing, true to life.
Dynamic Character:undergoes some type of change in story.
Flat Character:stereotyped, shallow, often symbolic.
Static Character:does not change in the course of the story.
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Methods of Characterization
Direct: he was an old man..(TheOld Man and the Sea)
Own Words and Actions Reaction of other Characters
Physical appearance
Own thoughts
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Plot
The series of events and
actions that takes placein a story.
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Elements of Plot
Conflict
Man VS Man
Man VS Nature
Man VS Society
Man VS Himself
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Plot Line
Exposition: The start of thestory. The way things are beforethe action starts.
Rising Action: theseries of conflictsand crisis in thestory that lead tothe climax.
Climax: The turning point. The mostintense moment (either mentally or inaction.
Falling Action: all of theaction which follows theClimax.
Resolution: The conclusion, thetying together of all of thethreads.
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Point of View: Who is telling the
story?
Omniscient Point of View: The author istelling the story.
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last fewfeet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it
now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and hishair was plastered to his forehead. All around him thelong scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
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Point of View
Limited Omniscient: Thirdperson, told from the viewpointof a character in the story.
In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where thelilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase.He looked down at the guttered candlestub. Hepressed his thumbprint in the warm wax pooled on theoak veneer. Lastly he looked at the face so caved anddrawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowedmoustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was notsleeping. That was not sleeping.
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
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Point of View
First Person: Story is told from point of view of one of thecharacters who uses the first person pronoun I.
I have been afraid of putting air in a tire
ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up andthrow Newt Hardbines father over the topof the Standard Oil sign. Im not lying. Hegot stuck up there. About nineteen peoplecongregated during the time it took for
Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouseand blow the whistle for the volunteer firedepartment.
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
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Theme
The theme of a piece of fiction is its central idea. It usuallycontains some insight into the human condition.
In most short stories, the theme can be expressed in a single
sentence.
In longer works of fiction, the central theme is oftenaccompanied by a number of lesser, related themes, or theremay be two or more central themes.
Themes should be stated as a generalization.
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Symbolism
A symbol represents an idea, quality, or concept larger thanitself.
A Journey cansymbolize life.
Black can
represent evil ordeath.
Water mayrepresent a newbeginning.
A lion could be asymbol ofcourage.
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Other Fiction Elements
Allusion: a reference to a person, place or literary, historical,artistic, mythological source or event.
It was in St. Louis, Missouri, where they have that giantMcDonalds thing towering over the city(Bean Trees15)
Atmosphere: the prevailing emotional and mental climate of apiece of fiction.
Protagonist: The leading character in a literary work. Holden inThe Catcher in the Rye, Taylor in The Bean Trees.
Antagonist: The character who opposes the protagonist.
Dialogue: the reproduction of a conversation between two of thecharacters.
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Other Elements Continued
Foreshadowing: early clues about what will happen later in a piece offiction.
Irony: a difference between what is expected and reality.
Style: a writers individual and distinct way of writing. The total of thequalities that distinguish one authors writing from anothers.
Structure: the way time moves through a novel.
Chronological: starts at the beginning and moves through time.Flashback: starts in the present and then goes back to the past.
Circular or Anticipatory: starts in the present, flashes back to thepast, and returns to the present at the conclusion.
Panel: same story told from different viewpoints. (Lou Ann andTa lor cha ters in The Bean Trees