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Literary elements
Literary elements include characters, setting, theme, conflict, plot, point of view, symbolism, tone, and imagery. These elements work together to convey the author's ideas and capture the overall experience for the reader. Characters should change or grow by the end of the story. Conflict drives the plot forward by creating oppositional forces. Theme explores central insights or views of human nature.
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Literary elements
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- 2. LITERATURE • Express alanguage or the people.
- 3. IS DIVIDED INTODIFFERENT GENRES Epic Tragedy Comedy Novel Short Creative nonfiction story
- 4. • Literary elementsare parts of literature that together help to capture all ideas that express the author.
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- 6. CHARACTERS Refersto a person, animal or object in a story. The end of a story, a character should change or grow somehow.
- 7. GOOD CHARACTERS ARE: grow or change over time believable consistent memorable
- 8. SETTING • Is thetime and location in which a story takes place.
- 9. THERE ARE SEVERALASPECTS Atmosphere: What feeling is created at Weather conditions: Social conditions the beginning of the Is it rainy, sunny? story? Place: geographical Time: When is the location story taking place?
- 10. 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.
- 11. SOME SIMPLE EXAMPLESOF COMMON THEMES FROM LITERATURE: • - Love is blind. • - People are afraid of change. • - Believe in • - Don't judge a yourself book by its cover
- 12. CONFLICT • It isthe opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move. • Without conflict there is no plot.
- 13. CONFLICT CAN BE • External: • Internal: • A struggle • A struggle between the between the character and character and the elements of his/her nature. conscience.
- 14. PLOT • It isthe sequence of events in a story .
- 15. THERE ARE FIVEESSENTIAL PARTS OF PLOT:
- 16. POINT OF VIEW •The angle from which the story is told.
- 17. THERE ARE DIFFERENTTYPES • First Person Narrator. • Third person objetive narrator.
- 18. • Third personlimited, or partially omniscient narrator. • Third person omniscient narrator.
- 19. SYMBOLISM Is something that represents It can be a material object or something else a written sign used to represent something invisible.
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- 21. TONE • Encompasses theattitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
- 22. SOME MAY BE: informal ironic formal intimate serious
- 23. IMAGERY • It refersto the language or words that appeal to the senses.