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UGE 1
Elements of a Story Characters can be:
Story Elements:  Round- fully developed personalities

that are affected by the story’s events;
1. Setting they can learn, grow or determine by
2. Characters the end of the story.
3. Plot  Flat- one-dimensional character.
4. Point of View  Dynamic- character who does go
5. Theme through change and grows during a
Setting is the “where and when” of a story. It story.
is the time and place during which the story  Static- character does not go through
takes place. a change.
When examining how setting contributes to a Plot

story, there are multiple aspects to consider: How the author arranges events to develop
 Place the basic idea; it is the sequence of events in
 Time a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical
 Weather Conditions series of events having a beginning, middle
 Social Conditions and end. The short story usually has one plot
 Mood or atmosphere so it can be read in one setting.
The functions of SETTING:
 To create a mood or atmosphere

 To show a reader a different way of life
 To make action seem more real
 To be the source of conflict or struggle
 To symbolize an idea
Characters
 A person in a fictional story; Parts of a Plot:

 Qualities of a person Exposition - introduction; characters, setting
People in a work of fiction can be a (an): and conflict (problem) are introduced
Protagonist- clear center of story, all major Rising Action- events that occur as result of
events are important to this character. central conflict
Antagonist- opposition or enemy of main Climax- highest point of interest or suspense

character. of a story
Characteristics of a CHARACTER can be Falling Action - tension eases; events show

revealed through: the results of how the main character begins
to resolve the conflict
 His/her physical appearance.
 What he/she says, thinks, feel, dreams Resolution- loose ends are tied up; the
and what he/she does or does not do. conflict is solved
 What others say about him/her and
how others react to him/her.
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Conflict Example: You wake up to discover that you
have been robbed of all your worldly
-conflict is the dramatic struggle between two possession.
forces in a story. without conflict, there is no
plot. 3. Third person- story is told by a
narrator who sees all of the action;
 conflict is a problem that must be speaker uses the pronouns “he”, “she”,
solved; an issue between the “if”, “they”, “his”, “hers”, “its” and
protagonist and antagonist forces. it “theirs”. This person may be a
forms the basis of the plot. character in the story. There are
 conflicts can be external or internal several types of third person POV.
o external conflict- outside force  limited- the narrator knows the
may be person, group, animal, thoughts and feelings on only one
nature, or a nonhuman obstacle character in a story.
o internal conflict- takes place in  Third person omniscient- the
a character’s mind narrator knows the thoughts and
feeling of all the characters in a
External Conflict
story.
1. Character VS Character- struggles
Omnipotent- meaning all-powerful
against other people.
2. Character VS Nature- struggles Omniscient- meaning all-knowing
against animals, weather, environment
Omnipresent-meaning present everywhere at all
etc. times.
3. Character VS Society- struggles
against ideas, practices, or customs of Theme
others.
 the theme is the central, general
Internal Conflict message, the main idea, the
controlling topic about life or people
Character VS self- struggles with own soul, the author wants to get across through
physical limitations, choices, etc. a literary work
 to discover the theme of a story, think
Point of View (POV)
big. what big message is the author
The angle from which the story is told. There trying to say about the world in which
are several variations of POV. we live?
 what is this story telling me about how
1. First person- story is told by the life works, or how people behave?
protagonist or a character who
interacts closely with the protagonist or The practical lesson ( moral) that we learn
other characters; speaker uses the from a story after we read it. the lesson that
pronoun “I”, “me”, “we”. Readers teaches us what to do or how to behave after
experiences the story through this you have learned something from a story or
person’s eyes and only knows what something that has happened to you.
he/she knows and feels.
Example: The lesson or teaching of the story
2. Second person- story is told by a
is be careful when you’re offered something
narrator who addresses the reader or
for nothing.
some other assumed “you”; speaker
uses pronouns “you”, ”your” and
“yours”.

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Elements of a Story Characters can be:

Story Elements:  Round- fully developed personalities

When examining how setting contributes to a Plot

The functions of SETTING:

 To create a mood or atmosphere

 A person in a fictional story; Parts of a Plot:

Antagonist- opposition or enemy of main Climax- highest point of interest or suspense

Characteristics of a CHARACTER can be Falling Action - tension eases; events show

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