The document defines and explains several key literary elements:
1) Narrator - The speaker telling the story in a work of prose.
2) Point of view - The perspective of the story's narrator, which can be first person, third person limited or third person omniscient.
3) Theme - The underlying central idea or message of a literary work as interpreted by the author, not just the topic itself.
The document defines and explains several key literary elements:
1) Narrator - The speaker telling the story in a work of prose.
2) Point of view - The perspective of the story's narrator, which can be first person, third person limited or third person omniscient.
3) Theme - The underlying central idea or message of a literary work as interpreted by the author, not just the topic itself.
The document defines and explains several key literary elements:
1) Narrator - The speaker telling the story in a work of prose.
2) Point of view - The perspective of the story's narrator, which can be first person, third person limited or third person omniscient.
3) Theme - The underlying central idea or message of a literary work as interpreted by the author, not just the topic itself.
The document defines and explains several key literary elements:
1) Narrator - The speaker telling the story in a work of prose.
2) Point of view - The perspective of the story's narrator, which can be first person, third person limited or third person omniscient.
3) Theme - The underlying central idea or message of a literary work as interpreted by the author, not just the topic itself.
The perspective of the story’s narrator. There are 3 different
classifications: LITERARY ELEMENTS Action: the events that take place in a literary work.
Conflict: the struggle between conflicting forces.
The conflict often provides the main action and spotlights (=give emphasis to) the literary plot. It can be internal or external (sometimes both).
Setting: time, place, and context in which the
literary work action takes place.
Character: a person, human or non-human in the
story. Character may also refer to a person’s traits and personality.
Plot: an account of the literary work’s action (the main
events), as well as all other surrounding circumstances that moves the story along. Example LITERARY ELEMENTS TOPIC - THEME
The literary work’s underlying
meaning or general idea. However, the theme is not the topic of a story, it’s the author’s opinion about it. While the topic/subject of a detective's story may be crime or evil, the theme could be “evil is always punished”. LITERARY ELEMENTS SYMBOLISM
It is the use of symbols to
signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Some common examples are a “dove” symbolizing “peace”, or a “red rose” symbolizing “love”.