PLOT

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PLOT THE SERIES OF EVENTS THAT MAKE A STORY

• Expositon: the background info, explains the status quo
• Rising action: starts with a problem, gets more exciting
• Climax: a crisis, must solve the problem, most exciting
• Falling action, story calms down, finds new status quo
• Resolution: new normal is reached, all questions are answered

CONFLICT

TYPES OF CONFLICT

• Person vs person
• Person vs nature
• Person vs society
• Person vs self

PVP

• One or more individuals battling
• Against another person or group
• Example: batman vs penguin

PVN

• An individual or group battles
• The forces of nature
• Example: titanic passengers vs iceberg

PVS

• An individual battles an organized
• Group such as the government
• Example: katniss vs president snow
• Tip: individuals represent the gov.
• Look for uniforms and authority

PVSELF

• An idividual battles him or herself
• Example: dieting
• Look for reason vs emotion or instinct

CHARACTER

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 (evidence) to make deductions about a characters
• Takes practice!

POINT OF VIEW

WHO'S TELLING THE STORY

• First person: someone is telling a
• Story about themself
• Look for a narrator using the prounouns
• I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours

WHO'S TELLING THE STORY?

• Second person: someone who is
• telling a story about their audience to
• their audience
• Pronouns: you, your, yours
• Second person isn' t used very often.

WHO'S TELLING THE STORY?

• Third person: someone telling a story
• about a thrid person to an audience
• Pronouns: she, her, him, he, it, they, them, etc.
• This one is used a lot!

HOW MUCH DOES THAT NARRATOR KNOW?

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

OMNISCIENT NARRATOR

• The omniscient narrator knows EVERYTHING!
• About a story: what characters are thinking
• What has happened before and what will
• Happen next

LIMITED OMNISICIENT

• This narrator knows some things
• But does not know everything
• Perhaps they do not know some character's
• Thoughts

SETTING

DEFINITION

• The description of the when 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, affected by plot and character
• What's the mood of the pic from Nepal?

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SYMBOL

SYMBOL

• An object, person, or event represents
• An idea
• Simple example:
• Red octagons=stop

EXAMPLES

• Vastness
• Comfort
• Sadness
• Happineess
• Death freedom

MORE EXAMPLES

• Order
• Intelligence
• Bravery
• Rebirth
• Love

BRAVERY

EXAMPLES

• Fire in poem: desire
• Ice in poem: hate

THEME

THEME

• A statement about life or
• Being human that the text gives
• A reader
• Flys OUTSIDE the story
• Applys to you personally

EXAMPLES

• Harry Potter: friendship, perservernce
• Star Wars: good and evil
• Ransom of red chief: expections

DON'T CONFUSE WITH

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

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• Themes: dont give you answers