Literary Terms

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Literary Terms

• We will be using these literary terms throughout
  the school year.
• There WILL be literary terms used on your FINAL
  EXAMS in May!!
• Dont lose your terms! You might be able to use
  them
• be RESPONSIBLE!!

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We will use the following literary terms

• Character Antagonist Plot
• Static character Protagonist Motivation
• Dynamic character Flashback Theme
• Conflict Foreshadowing Tone
• Internal Conflict Setting Point of View
• External Conflict Inciting Incident

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Character

• A character is a person or an animal that takes
  part in the action of a literary work.

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• Dynamic character
• A character that changes and grows throughout
  the story.
• Static character
• a character that does not change.
• Think about the movie Despicable Me, who is a
  dynamic character? Who is a static character?

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Antagonist

• The Antagonist is a character or force in
  conflict with a main character, or protagonist.

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Do you know your Antagonists???

• On your paper take a few minutes to write down
  some Antagonists that you can recall from movies,
  television shows, and video games.
• Remember the Antagonist is in conflict with the
  Protagonist or, main character!
• Helpful hint you should now know why people use
  the saying Dont antagonize me!

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Protagonist

• The Protagonist is the main character in a
  literary work
• Can you name some famous Protagonists that are
  found in Disney movies?

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Plot

• Plot is the sequence of events. The first event
  causes the second, the second causes the third,
  and so forth. 1 2 3 4
• In most novels, dramas, short stories, and
  narrative poems, the plot involves both
  characters and a central conflict.

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PLOTLINE
Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
Resolution
Exposition
Conflict Introduced
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Inciting Incident
the event or decision that begins a story's
problem.
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Conflict

• Conflict is the struggle between opposing forces
  in a story or play. There are two types of
  conflict that exist in literature.

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External Conflict

• External conflict exists when a character
  struggles against some outside force, such as
  another character, nature, society, or fate.
• Man vs. Man
• Man vs. Nature

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Internal Conflict

• Internal conflict exists within the mind of a
  character who is torn between different courses
  of action.
• Man vs. Himself

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Flashback

• A flashback is a literary device in which an
  earlier episode, conversation, or event is
  inserted into the sequence of events. Often
  flashbacks are presented as a memory of the
  narrator or of another character.

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Flashback continued

• The movie Titanic is told almost entirely in a
  flashback.
• What are some other films that contain flashback
  to help tell stories?
• Holes
• Willy Wonka
• Think of some more

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Foreshadowing

• Foreshadowing is the authors use of clues to
  hint at what might happen later in the story.
  Writers use foreshadowing to build their readers
  expectations and to create suspense. This is
  used to help readers prepare for what is to come.

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Can you think of an element of foreshadowing?
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Point of View

• Point of View is the perspective, or vantage
  point, from which a story is told. It is the
  relationship of the narrator to the story.
• First-person is told by a character who uses the
  first-person pronoun I.
• Can you think of other pronouns that might be
  used in first person point of view?
• Third-person limited point of view is the point
  of view where the narrator uses third-person
  pronouns such as he and she to refer to the
  characters.

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Setting

• The setting of a literary work is the time and
  place of the action.
• The setting includes all the details of a place
  and time the year, the time of day, even the
  weather

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Theme

• central message, concern, or purpose
• a generalization, or general statement, about
  people or life
• may be stated directly but more often presented
  indirectly