The document discusses the key elements and themes found in literary texts. It defines the common elements as settings, characters, plot, conflict, and theme. It provides two short examples that demonstrate different themes - one about the dangers of unchecked ambition and technology, the other about the trials of war and love. The last section is a short children's story called "The Queue" that teaches the importance of following rules and being respectful while waiting in line.

1. Elements and Theme of
a Literary Text

2. Elements of a Literary
Text

3. SETTINGS
where and when the story
happened

4. CHARACTERS
 the persons or animals
featured in the story

5. PLOT
 the series of events and
the actions of the
characters

6. CONFLICT
the struggles between the
characters in the story

7. THEME
the belief or central idea presented
in the story
universal idea or message that
stretches through an entire story.
It is often a lesson that we learn
about life or people.

9. A man, fueled by an urge for
power and control due to his own
pride, builds a supercomputer.
That supercomputer then takes
over the world, causing chaos and
struggle galore.

10. A boy and a girl fall in love. The boy is
forced to join the army and fights to
survive in a war-torn country as his
beloved waits at home. When he
returns from war, the two are united
and married.

11. The Queue
by Jean Paul V. Banay
It was 9:30 in the morning at Labuin Elementary School. It was
already break time for Grade V-Coral. Children line up in a queue
to go the canteen to have their recess.
At the canteen, the children lined up in a queue waiting for their
turn to buy their food. Luke, a Grade 3 pupil rushed in front of the
queue and shouted at the canteen manager for food.
Calmly, the canteen manager said to Luke “Luke, it is not nice to
shout at people, especially when you’re at the canteen. And we
should observe the rules inside the canteen. Look at these
children, they line up in a queue and wait for their turn. You should
do the same.” said the canteen manager.
After that day, Luke lined up in the queue and asked politely for
food.

12. _________1. It was 9:30 in the morning at Labuin
Elementary School.
_________ 2. Luke, a Grade 3 pupil
_________ 3. Luke rushed in front of the queue
_________ 4. The canteen manager told Luke about
the rules inside the canteen.
_________ 5. Following rules inside the canteen is
the right thing to do.

13. THE FOX IN THE WELL
One day a fox fell into a well. He jumped and jumped but he could
not get out. The well was too deep. Soon he began to feel cold
and hungry.
Suddenly there was a noise from above. A goat had come to drink
from the well. It looked in and saw the fox. “Why, what are you
doing down there, Mr. Fox?” asked the goat.
The fox was very cunning. Quickly, he thought of a way to trick the
goat. “Oh, I’m drinking,” he said.
“Down there? But there’s water in the bucket up here.”
“Yes, I know,” said the fox. “But the water down here is much
sweeter.

14. Why don’t you come down and taste it for
yourself?”
“I think I will do that.” And the silly animal jumped
into the well.
At once the fox leapt on to the goat’s back. And
from there he soon jumped out of the well.
“Hey! Where are you going?” cried the goat. “What
about me? How am I going to get out of here?”
“Ah-ha, you silly goat,” laughed the fox. “Don’t you
think you should have thought of that before you
jumped in?”
And still laughing to himself he ran off, leaving the

15.  Who was trapped in the well?
 Who came passing one day?
 What convinced the goat to go down the well?
 How did the fox get out of the well?
 What is the moral of the story?