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Literary Elements What parts make up a a story? /dscorpio/images/literary_elements.ppt Story Grammar Setting Characters Plot Climax Theme Resolution Denouement Setting Details that describe: Furniture Scenery Customs Transportation Clothing Dialects Weather Time of day Time of year Elements of a Setting The Functions of a Setting To create a mood or atmosphere To show a reader a different way of life To make action seem more real To be the source of conflict or struggle To symbolize an idea We left the home place behind, mile by slow mile, heading for the mountains, across the prairie where the wind blew forever. At first there were four of us with one horse wagon and its skimpy load. Pa and I walked, because I was a big boy of eleven. My two little sisters romped and trotted until they got tired and had to be boosted up to the wagon bed. That was no covered Conestoga, like Pa’s folks came West in, but just an old farm wagon, drawn by one weary horse, creaking and rumbling westward to the mountains, toward the little woods town where Pa thought he had an old uncle who owned a little two-bit sawmill. Types of Characters People or animals Major characters Minor characters Round characters Flat characters Characterization A writer reveals what a character is like and how the character changes throughout the story. Two primary methods of characterization: Direct- writer tells what the character is like Indirect- writer shows what a character is like by describing what the character looks like, by telling what the character says and does, and by what other characters say about and do in response to the character. Direct Characterization Indirect Characterization Elements of Character Factors in Analyzing Characters Physical appearance of character Personality Background/personal history Motivation Relationships Conflict Does character change? Plot Plot is what happens and how it happens in a narrative. A narrative is any work that tells a sto