Literary Elements

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Literary Elements
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Character

• Who the story is about.
• Effective development of the character is very
  important
• Characters are developed from 3 sources
  narrators description, other characters, the
  character him/herself.
• Main characters are called protagonist
• Dynamic characters change due to circumstances
  presented in bk.
• When many traits of a character are shown they
  are refered to rounded characters

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Point of view

• Refers to who is telling the story- the author or
  the characters or both
• Omniscient point of view- all knowing (past
  present, future, peoples thoughts,etc- usually a
  3rd party.
• In objective point of view reader learns about
  characters by their actions.
• Points of view of different characters can change
  the story dramatically.

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Setting

• Refers to where and when the story took place.
• May be important or not. Settings depicting
  history are important.
• Settings should be revealed subtly as the story
  develops instead of tonnes of description.

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Plot

• Refers to sequence of events in a story.
• Cumulative plots have some repetition with
  something new being added as the bk progresses.
• Linear- introduces character-gt problem-gt
  solution.
• Episodic- one bk, many chapters stories, same
  characters.
• Circular- are like linear, only that the
  character finds himself in the same situation as
  he started e.g. If you took a mouse to the movies

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Theme

• Refers to the central idea, underlying message
  in the bk.
• Themes are very elusive and should be very
  clearly stated.

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Style

• Refers to how the book is written. E.g, Dr. Seuss
  has a distinctive style.
• Hard to pinpoint

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Tone

• Is it humorous, serious, sympathetic, hopeful,
  longing, wondrous, nostalgic, etc

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