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The elements in children story
- 1. The Elements inchildren story 1. Characters 2.Plot 3. Setting 4. Point of view 5. Style and tone 6. Literary Rhythm 7. Themes
- 2. Characters Types ofCharacters •People Animals Creators
- 3. Elements of character • Protagonist (Good guy) • Antagonist(Bad guy) • Foil Character • Main characters • Minor Characters • Flat characters • Round Characters • Anthropomorphic Characters are developed by • Actions • Speech • Appearance • Other character's comments • Author's comments • Unity of character and action
- 4. A writer cantell you about the character Directly: (long ago in faraway kingdom ,there lived a girl her name is Cinderella .she was kind, smart and beautiful) Indirectly: what does the character say and what does she like?
- 5. Snow White issweet kind and lovely girl she helps and likes seven dwarves She almost dies Her mother is cruel to her • CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER: SNOW WHITE IS: A-round character B-main character C-flat character Think about your favorite character, movie or series • Who is this character name? • What does he, she likes ? • What kind of personality this character has?
- 6. Rising Action climax Falling action Pattern of action Exposition Resolution Sensationalism: Cliffhanger Foreshadowing Suspense Plot • The plot is the events or series that take place in the story • The plots tells what happen in the story • Every story needs a plot • It has different parts “The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?“ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024660/plotsummary
- 7. Form conflicts Protagonistvs. Antagonist Person-against-self Person-against-person Person-against-society Person-against-nature
- 8. FUN TIME Youhave to read story that you like and identified PATTERN ACTION ,then write it down WHAT IS Raising action………. Climax…………… Falling action……… Exposition…….. Resolution………
- 9. setting • Thetime and place of the story • Integral setting very important in the story • Backdrop setting less important in the story • It can describe • Time of day, year or history • Also can describe scenery ,weather location or area
- 10. Use the fivesenses to description the setting • Sound • Feel • Sight • Taste • smell
- 11. Example “It’s ChristmasEve, and Suzy Goose and her friends are admiring their beautifully decorated tree. It’s perfect except for one thing: a star for the top. But Suzy sees just the right one, high in the sky, and no one can stop her from trying every possible way to get it! Bold, expressive illustrations follow the charmingly single-minded goose in a new adventure, a tale of seasonal magic found in surprising places” http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2012/12/stories-of-christmas-24-great-books-for.html
- 12. Point of view • The sound that is telling the story • The types of point of view : • First-person (First person ” I “) for example ‘’one day I went to the farm and I saw amazing things… • Omniscient (third person she ,he or they )" they asked in a fox, who jumped in form the trees “ • Objective or dramatic point of view(There is no explanation to the reader of what is happening or what the characters think or feel
- 13. Style and tone The ways how the author uses words, sentences , phrases and organization How the author tell or say something upon the story Sentence structure • Imagery • Figurative language • Figure of speech • Personification • Simile • Metaphor • Hyperbole • Understatement • Allusion • Symbol Devices of sound • Onomatopoeia • Alliteration • Assonance • Consonance • Rhythm
- 14. Rhythm • Itcreate repeated pattern of sounds or movements in the story • It makes musical type in the story • The occurrence of the same sound at the end of two or more words • examples hop-pop Sing-song Drooping-pooping best-rest “One day we were playing outside in our yard When my brother got mad and he pushed me so hard That I pushed him right back - with all of my might - And quick as a wink we were having a fight!” http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml
- 15. Examples of rhythmbooks
- 16. Activity for Rhythm Choose anything in this picture and makemusical sounds by two words have the same pattern Cat Boy Fat Mouse Pen Apple Tree For example The boy has a hat cute like a cat
- 17. Theme • Themain idea or underlying meaning in the story • The message that may the author wants to telling to us • It might about life or human nature • It not stated directly but It must be inferred • It Tells us what did we learn from the story Types of theme • Implied theme( must be inferred by all the elements of the story ,what the message did you learn) • Stated theme(directly presented and easily defined )
- 18. You can recognizethe theme in the story by • Story tittles • Key words ,phrases, statements in the story about the main idea Finding themes in Cinderella story? • What is the topic and main idea? • How do characters in this story give you lesson or something important in the life?
- 19. References • www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml • www.homeofbob.com/literature/genre/fiction/ficElmnts.html