THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION

PLOT

• Makes the events of a story
• 5 parts
• Exposition
• Ri

CONFLICT😡

TYPES OF CONFLICT

• Person vs person one or more idividuals battling
• Person vs nature battles the forces of nature
• Person vs society individual battles an organized group
• Person vs self individual battles him or herself

CHARACTERS🎭

5 WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT A CHARACTER

• What they do
• What they say
• What they look like
• What is said about them
• What the author tells us

INFERENCES💡

• Use clues to make deductions about a characture
• Takes practice

POINT OF VIEW👀

WHOS TELLING THE STORY

• First Person: About them self Ex. i me my
• Second person: telling about their audience to their audience ex. You
• Third person: telling a storyabout a third person to audience ex. He her them

HOW MUCH DO THE NARRATORS KNOW

• Narrators 1st 2nd or 3rd persons
• Come in two varieties:
• Omniscient and limited omniscient

OMNISCIENT NARRATOR

• The omniscient narrator knows everything
• About a story:what characters are thinking
• What has happened and what will happen next

LIMITED OMNISCIENT NARRATOR

• This narrator knows somethings
• But doesn't know everything
• Perhqos they don't know some characters thoughts

SETTING

DEFINITION

• The description of where and when events take place
• Is much more than a date and location
• The difference between a story in Nepal, today, and...

MOOD

DEFINITION

• The emotional response a story gives a reader
• Driven immediately by the setting, affected by plot and character
• What's the mood of the pic from Nepal?

SYMBOL🌈

SYMBOL

• An object or person or an event represents
• An idea
• Simple example
• Red octagons=Stop

THEME

THEME

• A stamptement about life
• Being human that the text gives
• A reader

EXAMPLES

• Harry Potter friendship perserverance
• Star Wars good and evil
• Ransom of Red Chief expectations

DONT CONFUSE WITH

• The moral of the story
• A lesson to be learned