CREATIVE WRITING

Module 4 Contents/ Lessons

3. Reading and Writing Fiction

3.1. Elements of the Genre

a. Character
b. Point of View
c. Plot
d. Setting and atmosphere
e. Conflict
f. Irony
g. Theme

3. READING AND WRITING FICTION

Fiction - literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that
describes imaginary events and people

3.1.ELEMENTS OF THE GENRE

Genre consists of four elements or parts: character, story, plot and setting. An equation
for remembering the genre is: Story (Action) + Plot + Character + Setting = Genre. This
becomes an easy way to remember the elements of a genre.

a. Character - a person in a novel, play, or movie. May be an antagonist

(opponent) or protagonist (central character.)

b. Point of View - 1st-person POV (major, minor, or bystander) 2nd-person POV,

3rd- person POV (objective, limited omniscient, omniscient)

c. Plot - the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and
presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. Parts of the plot are
linear, modular/episodic, traditional parts: exposition, rising action, climax,
falling action, resolution/denouement.

d. d. Setting and atmosphere - Setting: specific place, time period, and weather
and time of day in which the story takes place. Atmosphere: refers to the
surrounding mood, generally established through setting. Included here are
time and place, cultural, sociological, political, religious, etc. milieu,
sensibilities that lead to specific modes.

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 e. Conflict - a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.

f. Irony - the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies
the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. It includes the
verbal, situational and dramatic.

g. Theme - an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature. Parts of

the theme are moral/lesson, dramatic premise and insight.

Activities:

PART 1: Read the story of “The Wrestling Contest between the Cat and the
Tortoise,” and summarize the story following the elements of genre of short story.
Take note of elements of the genre from A to F.

Search for the story in this link: https://charleneelisan.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-

wrestling-contest-between-cat-and.html

PART 2: PART 2: Learning Bank: (Summary of learning) Please write down about
what you have learned in these topics/ lessons.

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