LITERARY ELEMENTS

LITERATURE

• Express a language or the people.

IS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT GENRES

TragedyEpic

Comedy Novel

Creative nonfiction

Short story

• Literary elements are parts of literature that together help to capture all ideas that express the author.

THESE ARE

CHARACTERS

Refers to a person, animal or object in a story.

The end of a story, a character should change or grow somehow.

GOOD CHARACTERS ARE:

memorable

consistent

believable

grow or change over time

SETTING

• Is the time and location in which a story takes place.

THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS

Atmosphere: What feeling is created at the beginning of the

story?

Social conditions Weather conditions: Is it rainy, sunny?

Place: geographical location

Time: When is the story taking place?

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.

• - Love is blind.

• - Believe in yourself

• - People are afraid of change.

• - Don't judge a book by its cover

SOME SIMPLE EXAMPLES OF COMMON THEMES FROM LITERATURE:

CONFLICT

• It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move.

• Without conflict there is no plot.

• External:

• A struggle between the

character and the elements

of nature.

• Internal:

• A struggle between the

character and his/her

conscience.

CONFLICT CAN BE

PLOT

• It is the sequence of events in a story .

THERE ARE FIVE ESSENTIAL PARTS OF PLOT:

POINT OF VIEW

• The angle from which the story is told.

THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES

• First Person Narrator.

• Third person objetive narrator.

• Third person limited, or partially omniscient narrator.

• Third person omniscient narrator.

SYMBOLISM

Is something that represents

something elseIt can be a material object or

a written sign used to represent something

invisible.

EXAMPLE

TONE

• Encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.

SOME MAY BE:

formal

informal

intimate

serious

ironic

IMAGERY

• It refers to the language or words that appeal to the senses.