2. Motivational Activity: Word Search!
Directions: Scan the grid of letters below carefully and attentively. Identify the words that
are connected to today’s lesson. Encircle the word that you will find. The words may appear
horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
4. What is fiction?
• Fiction is defined as prose based on the author’s imagination. It
means, such stories never happened in real life. Types of literature in
the fiction genre include the novel, short story, and novella. The word
is from the Latin fictiō, “the act of making, fashioning, or molding.
6. Elements of Fiction
1. Characters – are the people, animals, or aliens in the story. Readers
come to know the characters through what they say, what they
think, and how they act.
There are 6 types of Characters:
Flat Character Protagonists
Static Character Antagonists
Round characters Confidante
7. Elements of Fiction
2. Plot- a series of events and actions that occur in a story
a. Exposition
b. Rising action
c. Climax
d. Falling action
e. Resolution
8. Elements of Fiction
3. Conflict- opposition of forces or characters
a. Man vs. man
b. Human vs. society
c. Human vs. nature
d. Human vs. self
Flashback- shows the past events which causes the story to happen
Foreshadowing- shows hints about the future
Resolution – ending of the story– I think sa plot ini pero labadi ang
module T_T
9. Elements of Fiction
4. Settings- refers when (time) and where (place) the story happened.
When (e explain da ini verbally)
Where (e explain da isab ini verbally)
10. Elements of Fiction
5. Theme – it is the center or the main idea of the story
Characteristics of a theme:
1. It the main idea.
2. Expressed in the form of statement, not word.
3. It is a view of life.
4. No theme is identical with moral or lesson.
5. A revelation of a human character
6. Does not rely on facts that are not stated in the story
7. Not a familiar saying
12. Assessment
I. Multiple Choice
• Directions: Choose the correct answer and write it in your paper.
1. This refers to a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part of the in the action of a short or other literary works.
a. Fiction c. Characters
b. Plot d. Theme
1. It came from the Latin word ‘fictio’ which means the act of making, fashioning, or molding.
a. Fiction c. Flashback
b. Setting d. Conflict
1. It is the central idea or belief in a short story.
a. Theme c. Plot
b. Setting d. Point of View
1. This tells when and where the story happened.
a. Conflict c. Plot
b. Setting d. Point of view
1. This refers to the series of events in a story. It has exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
a. Conflict c. Plot
b. Setting d. Point of View
13. Assessment
I. True or False
• Direction: Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
• _____1. Plot is the series of events and actions that occur in a story.
• _____2. Conflict refers to the belief or the central idea of a story.
• _____3. Characters makes the story alive.
• _____4. Theme tells when and where the story happens.
• _____5. Fiction means that the story never happened in real life.
