Literary Devices

1. LITERARY
ANALYSIS
2ND PRE B2- 2024
COLEGIO SANTA TERESA
Teacher: Mechi Spadoni

2. LITERARY TERMS

3. CHARACTERS

4. Your primary characters are your main players in the story.
They might be your protagonist and villain,
but your primary characters may be your
whole cast if you’re writing from multiple points of view.
These are the characters your story revolves around in.
They’re personally impacted by your story’s
plot, and we experience the story
through their perspective.
PRIMARY
CHARACTERS

5. Secondary characters, though not main characters in your story, are important!
You can’t simply paint them as a caricature to populate your world.
Secondary characters do help populate your world, but they also serve a few
important roles. They can:
Reveal certain details about your main character(s)
Support your worldbuilding
Inspire your main character(s) to take some kind of action
Act as an antagonist (though not a villain) in a subplot
SECONDARY
CHARACTERS

6. Round: fully developed, has many different character traits
Flat: stereotyped, one-dimensional, few traits
Static: does not change.
Dynamic: changes as a result of the story's events,
or plot.
TYPES OF CHARACTERS

8. PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST
A major character who opposes the
protagonist.
The antagonist does not change
EXAMPLE: THE JOKER
Main character of the story who
changes
The most important character
He/she makes a realization about
self or the world around him/her
EXAMPLE: BATMAN

9. SETTING

10. WHAT IS SETTING?
The setting of a story is the place
where the story happens and the time
when it happens.
The setting can be real or imaginary.
Characters interact with the setting to
show and tell a story.
Setting helps the reader share what
the characters see, hear, smell, and
touch.
WHEN & WHERE?

11. historical era
weather
place
time of day season
year
country

12. WHAT IS PLOT?
PLOT is the sequence of events that make up a story
It includes:
Introduction or Exposition
Conflict
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

13. EXPOSITION
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Part of the story that
introduces characters,
setting, conflict
Consists of a series of
complications. These
occur when the main
characters take action to
resolve their problems
and are met with further
problems: –Fear –
Hostility –Threatening
situation
CONFLICT
The major
problem/conflict of the
story is introduced

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CLIMAX
RESOLUTION
The turning point in the story: the high point of interest and
suspense
End of the story where the
conflict or problems are
solved
All events following the
climax or turning point in
the story. These events
are a result of the action
taken at the climax.

15. POINT OF VIEW
1st PERSON: One of the characters is actually
telling the story using the pronoun “I”
3rd PERSON
LIMITED: Centers on one character’s thoughts
and actions.
OMNISCIENT: All-knowing narrator. May center
on the thoughts and actions of any and all
characters.
Perspective from which writer
tells the story

16. SYMBOLS
A PERSON, A PLACE, OR THING USED TO REPRESENT A
LARGER, MORE ABSTRACT CONCEPT.
EXAMPLE: SCALES FUNCTION IS TO WEIGH THINGS, BUT
THEY ARE ALSO A SYMBOL OF OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.

17. THEME

18. In literature, a theme is a central idea that is recurringly
explored and expressed throughout a text.
Themes are the deeper issues that works of literature engage
with that have a broader significance beyond the text. Themes
raise questions more often than they provide us with answers.
They invite the reader to engage with these issues by tracing
how a theme is explored and developed throughout a literary
work.

20. DETAILED
ANALYSIS

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