The document outlines key elements of storytelling, including plot, setting, and characterization. It defines characters as actors in a story with specific roles, and describes the structure of plot through five essential parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Additionally, it discusses various types of conflict and the significance of setting, encompassing aspects like time, location, and mood.

1. PLOT, SETTING AND
CHARACTERIZATION
WEEK 3

2. CHARACTERS
•Refer to persons, creature or things serving
as actors or movers in a story.They portray
specific roles with corresponding dialogues
and plot lines. Stories have protagonist/s and
antagonist/s.

3. CHARACTERIZATION
•Is a writer’s tool, or “ literacy device” that
occurs any time the author uses details to
teach us about a person.

4. PLOT
•Shows how the author arranges events to
develop the basic idea.
•The organization of main events.
•It has five (5) essential parts.

6. EXPOSITION
•It is the beginning of the story
•Characters are introduced
•Settings are revealed

7. RISING ACTION
•The conflict is revealed
•Suspense and tension arised
•Conflict can be any form of struggle the
main character faces

8. KINDS OF CONFLICT
• CHARACTER vs. SELF
• Struggles with own soul, physical limitations, choices,
etc.
• Inner conflict
• External – struggle with a force outside one’s self.

9. CHARACTERVS. CHARACTER
•Struggles against other people

10. CHARACTERVS. NATURE
•Struggles against animals, weather,
environment, etc.

11. CHARACTERVS. SOCIETY
•Struggles against ideas, practices, or customs
of others.

12. CLIMAX
•Is the turning point of the story
•Readers wonder what will happen next
•Will the conflict be resolved or not?

13. FALLING ACTION
•Where the resolution begins
•Events and complications start to fall into place
•The events between climax and denouement

14. RESOLUTION
•The final outcome of events in the story

15. SETTING
•Refers to the time and location when and
where a story takes place.

16. MULTIPLE ASPECTS
• PLACE – Geographical location; where is the action of the story taking place?
• TIME – Historical period.Time of day, year, etc.; when the story taking place?
• WEATHER CONDITIONS – Is it rainy, sunny, stormy, etc.?
• SOCIAL CONDITIONS – What is the daily life of the character’s like? Does the story
contain local color?
• MOOD or ATMOSPHERE – What feeling is created at the beginning of the story?
• TONE – The writer’s attitude toward a subject or character

25. STORY TIME!