LITERARY ELEMENTS

EXTRINSIC
CONSIDERATIONS INTRINSIC
CONSIDERATIONS

SPECIFIC GROUP:
epic, lyric or
2
3 4 6
dramatic poem;
TIME OF
tragic, comic, satiric,
TYPE OF WORK:
COMPOSITION & HISTORICAL AUTHOR'S LYRIC / 5
problem play; essay;
PUBLICATION EVENTS LIFE DRAMA/ historical,
NARRATIVE philosophical,
psychological social
novel/narrative

CHARACTERIZATION

FUNCTION OF
PHYSICAL TRAITS
THE CHARACTER
METHOD OF
CHARACTERIZATION

·Omniscient, editorial, objective, limited (3rd.

person// 1st. person -protagonist/ effaced
POINT OF VIEW
narrator

Setting: It refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
Tone and atmosphere:
1. tone (attitude towards his subject) ironic, cynical, bitter, melancholy, sentimental, comic, etc.
2. atmosphere: (dominant emotion that pervades the story) horror, mystery, etc.
Style & Register
Symbolism: symbolic level, more than one meaning?
Theme: It is central idea or concept of a story.

PLOT Casually related sequence of

events.