SIX ELEMENTS

😰 PLOT 😄

• Definition: How the author arranges events to develop their basic idea
• 5 essential parts of a plot (plot mountain): introduction, initiating incident, Rising action, climax, & Denoument
• Example: The Plot of the movie "Labyrinth" was introduction: a daughter hates her step mom and hates brother
• Initiating incident: the goblin king takes her baby brother, rising action: Sarah goes through labyrinth
• Climax: reaches the castle and battles the goblin king, Denouement: Sarah gets her baby brother back

THEME

• Definition: The controlling idea or central insight
• Symbol, allusion, hyperbole, metaphor, simile
• Example: "Dracula" by Bram Stroker
• The theme for that movie is Horror

😈 CHARACTER 😇

• Definition: Someone who figures in action or literary work
• Two main characters: antagonist and protagonist
• Twilight saga: Antagonist- the voltuary Protagonist- Edward & Bella Cullen
• Types of characters: Rounded-many sides, Flat-briefly not in depth
• Dynamic-many sided change for better or worse, Static-Stereotypes

POINT OF VIEW

• Definition: The perspective from which the story is being told
• First person- the protagonist "I", Second person- "you"
• Third person- using a narrator, innocent eye- child's perspective
• Omniscient- all knowing, limited omniscient- knows one characters feelings
• Stream of consciousness- lets the reader seem as if they're in the characters mind

SETTING

• The time and place where a story occurs
• Place: the geographical location
• Time: when the story is taking place
• Weather conditions, social conditions, & mood/atmosphere
• Ex. The setting of the movie "The Blind Side" was Mississippi

CONFLICT 🔫

• Essential to the plot. There are two types of conflict external & internal
• External- a force outside of one's self. Internal- a struggle within one's self
• Four kinds of conflict: Human vs. Human, Human vs. Nature
• Human vs. Society, & Human vs. Self
• The conflict in the movie "World War Z" was External & Human vs. Human