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- 2. SLIDESMANIA.COM Setting Setting can berevealed through the characters’ eyes, manners, and orientations. A setting generally describes the time and place where the story takes place. In
- 3. SLIDESMANIA.COM Every story occursin a geographical location during a certain period. This is called the setting. The setting can be introduced by directly stating the place and the time the story takes place.
- 4. SLIDESMANIA.COM To understand thesetting, the readers should look into the following: •the alternative realities such as the past, present, future, or the combination of the three; •the weather, climate, location, or the topography: •the concrete or imaginary time and place; •the abstract location (such as the wardrobe in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”).
- 5. SLIDESMANIA.COM A setting hasbeen given more weight in some stories and less in others. Settings can be an integral part or serve as a backdrop. In historical and realistic fiction.
- 6. SLIDESMANIA.COM In an Integralsetting, the time and place are described in detail. Integral setting dictate the language that the character uses. The norms of the society and culture, the mean and style of transportation, the clothes that the characters wear, and the activitie that the people are engaged in.
- 7. SLIDESMANIA.COM On the otherhand, the setting used as a backdrop has moderately less importance than the setting used as an integral element. A backdrop setting creates a visual charm but is not significant to the. Whole plot.
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- 9. SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM The Plot A plotis a narrative or the logical order of events in a story. A basic structure o the plot includes the exposition or introduction where the characters and the setting are introduced.
- 10. SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM The Plot Aristotle formulateda unified triangle-shaped plot that consists o a continuous sequence of beginning, middle, and end.
- 11. SLIDESMANIA.COM SLIDESMANIA.COM The Plot Gustave Freytag’spyramid plot structure is modified from Aristotle’s, which consists of 5 parts, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
- 12. SLIDESMANIA.COM What is a Conflictof a story?
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- 14. SLIDESMANIA.COM Conflict Another very essentialelement of a’ story is conflict. A conflict is the main challenge to the characters. The main types of conflict include man versus himself, man versus nature, man versus man,. Man. Versus society.
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- 16. SLIDESMANIA.COM Theme A theme isa central idea or a hidden meaning of the story. It is always related to the subject yet can be distinguished from the subject. Themes are ideas or opinions on the subject which are written in statement form. We think of the contrast between good and evil; the theme could be “In the battle between good and evil, good always triumphs.” If the subject is true love, the theme could be “True love knows no reason.”
- 17. SLIDESMANIA.COM Theme Themes can beconveyed by the çharacterization, the plot, the setting, and other elements of the story. In short, a theme is the what” of the story. Themes can also be chunked into subthemes. Main themos present the overall idea of the storv, while minor or subthemes can be deduced at certain point of the narrative.
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- 19. SLIDESMANIA.COM Moral Moral refers tothe piece of wisdom that the author wants to convey. Morals are deduced at the end of the story. It is a suggested lesson that could be explicitly written at the end of the story, like that of fables or implied. To understand the moral of the story, readers need to finish reading.
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- 21. SLIDESMANIA.COM Point of View Apoint of view is a perspective that determines who tells the story. It could be the first-person point of view or the point of view of the main character, telling the story, the second person point of view where the readers are involved in the story, or the third person point of view where the author is directly telling the story
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- 23. SLIDESMANIA.COM Alternating Point ofView There are stories. Told from the point.of view of two characters or more. This happens when a single incident is told from diferent eyes. In the “Animorphs The Andalite’s Gift,” each of the. Five children told a first- person account in each. The novel “Never Mind! A Twin Novel was told alternately by the male and female twins.
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