ELEMENTS OF LITERARY TEXT

Lesson Objectives:

EO: Observe politeness at all times

LC: Identify the elements of literary texts
RC: Summarize narrative texts based on the
elements
F: Read aloud grade level appropriate text
with an accuracy rate of 95 – 100%
 Literary elements refers to an
aspect of a whole text. The
elements are setting, characters
and plot.
 Princess Polite (Short Story)
by Jasmine Logan,
Once there was a girl called Princess Polite but
people in her castle called her Polly or Polly
Polite. One day a super star came to her
castle. Polly said “Why have you come here?
And what is your name?” The super star said
“My name is Sarah Jones. I’m here to rock out
on your castles stage!” Polly said “I don’t have
a stage in my castle!”
“Ooooh dear!” Sarah cried. Polly said “I will
make a grand stage just for you and I will
name it Stage Sarah.” Sarah said
“You don’t have to call it stage Sarah.” Polly
called for the best builders in the land to come
build the stage. The building started. It took
them two years to build it! Polly called Sarah
on the phone.
“It’s finished come see!” Polly said. “Sure, I’ll
be there as soon as possible!” Super star Sarah
said.
“James Sammy and I met him at a wedding.”
Sarah said.
“Oh how sweet!” Polly said.
“Nice to meet you Polly Polite.” the handsome
prince said.
“You smell like tuna!’ Polly said.
“Oh.” He said.
“We are here to get married!” Sarah said.
“Wait, I thought we were here to see you rock
out. I don’t want to marry you!” James said, “I
want to marry Polly!”
Polly married the prince. The rock star rocked out
on the stage but was crying the whole time. She
stopped crying for a moment then she cried into a
bucket it had a thousand drips in it and it went all
the way up to the top. She had to tip it out and start
all over again. The prince and the princess lived
happily ever after. The rock star spent the rest of
her life crying a million tears into a bucket and
starting all over again and again and again and
again and again .and again and again and again.
 The elements of literary texts and their
definition
 The characters are the people or animals in the story.
 The setting talks about the place and the time that the events
in the story happened.
 The plot is made up of the events that happened in the story.
It consists of the beginning, the middle, and the ending.
 Beginning – it gives the problem faced by the main
character
 Middle – it represents the actions made by the
characters to solve the problem
 Ending – it gives the solution to the problem
 THE GREEDY BOY

There lived a twin brother called Sam and

Tom! They were identical twins, even their mother
found it too hard to differentiate between them
during the initial months of birth.
However, they were like two poles when it
comes to everything other than their
appearance. They neither agree with anything
nor do they share even one single trait!
 Sam had no friends, whereas for Tom, the
world was friendship. Sam loved sweets and Tom
loved to eat spicy foods. Sam was mommy’s pet
and Tom was daddy’s pet.
While Sam was generous, Tom was greedy!
As they grew up, their father wanted to
share his fortune equally. However, Tom did not
agree and he argued that whoever is more
intelligent and strong, will gain higher share of
wealth than other.
 Sam agreed. Their father decided to
organize a competition between the two. And
they ordered the two sons to walk as long as
they can in and they should return home
before the sunset.
 Whoever covers the longer distance and
returns home before sunset will get huge
amount of wealth proportionate to the distance
they covered. They don’t carry watch to
calculate time.
Both started to walk a long way during a
sunny day. Sam walked slowly and steadily,
while Tom urged to win
over Sam started to run instantly.
 The distance they cover until mid-noon will
be equal to the distance they would reach
home before sunset.
It was mid-noon and Sam decided to
return back as he could reach home on time.
However, Tom, with his greediness to earn more
wealth, did not turn his way back home even
after mid-noon.
 He walked two times longer distance that
what Sam was covered and decided to return
back before the sunset. He urged to return
home as the Sun turned orange in the evening.
Unfortunately, he could not even make half
way to home and the moon rises.
He lost the race and was defeated because
of greediness!
GREEDINESS WILL MAKE YOU LOSE EVERYTHING
What is the setting of the story? Read the part
where the setting is mentioned.
2. Who are the characters in the story?
Describe each of the characters.
Identify the parts in the selection that 3.
helped you described the characters
GROUP
WORK
Remember

 The characters are the people or animals in the story.

 The setting talks about the place and the time that the events in the
story happened.
 The plot is made up of the events that happened in the story. It
consists of the beginning, the middle, and the ending.
 Beginning – it gives the problem faced by the main character
 Middle – it represents the actions made by the characters to solve the
problem
 Ending – it gives the solution to the problem