1. LITERARY ELEMENTS

2. LITERATURE
• Express a language or the people.

3. IS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT
GENRES
Epic Tragedy
Comedy Novel
Short Creative
nonfiction
story

4. • Literary elements are parts of literature
that together help to capture all ideas
that express the author.

5. THESE ARE

6. CHARACTERS
Refers to a person, animal or object in a
story.
The end of a story, a character should
change or grow somehow.

7. GOOD CHARACTERS ARE:
grow or change over time
believable
consistent
memorable

8. SETTING
• Is the time and location in which a story
takes place.

9. THERE ARE SEVERAL ASPECTS
Atmosphere: What
feeling is created at Weather conditions:
Social conditions
the beginning of the Is it rainy, sunny?
story?
Place: geographical Time: When is the
location story taking place?

10. THEME
• Central insight , but not every literary
work has a theme.
• The theme may be the thoughts about a
topic or view of human nature.

11. SOME SIMPLE EXAMPLES OF COMMON
THEMES FROM LITERATURE:
• - Love is blind. • - People are
afraid of change.
• - Believe in • - Don't judge a
yourself book by its cover

12. CONFLICT
• It is the opposition of forces which ties
one incident to another and makes the
plot move.
• Without conflict there is no plot.

13. CONFLICT CAN BE
• External: • Internal:
• A struggle • A struggle
between the between the
character and character and
the elements of his/her
nature. conscience.

14. PLOT
• It is the sequence of events in a story .

15. THERE ARE FIVE ESSENTIAL
PARTS OF PLOT:

16. POINT OF VIEW
• The angle from which the story is told.

17. THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES
• First Person Narrator.
• Third person objetive narrator.

18. • Third person limited, or partially
omniscient narrator.
• Third person omniscient narrator.

19. SYMBOLISM
Is something that
represents It can be a material object or
something else a written sign used to
represent something
invisible.

20. EXAMPLE

21. TONE
• Encompasses the attitudes toward the
subject and toward the audience implied
in a literary work.

22. SOME MAY BE:
informal
ironic formal intimate
serious

23. IMAGERY
• It refers to the language or words that
appeal to the senses.