The “Elements of Literature”



The “Elements of Literature”

(The parts of a story/novel)

1. What are CHARACTERS? _______________________

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-______________ is the main character(s) the story is based on

-______________ is the character(s) that the protagonist has a conflict with

Give an example of a:

Flat Character -_________________________________________________________

Round Character - ______________________________________________________

2. What is PLOT? ________________________________

We can “show” what happens in a story by making a plot diagram.

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__________________ _________________

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3. What is CONFLICT? ___________________________

What is the ONLY internal conflict? ________________ vs. __________________

What are the external conflicts? __________________ vs. __________________

__________________ vs. __________________

__________________ vs. ___________________

4. Give an example of SETTING _____________________

______________________________________________.

5. POINT OF VIEW: Draw a line to the correct passage.

A. First person narrator- I, I, I

B. Third person limited narrator- All knowing

C. Omniscient- Only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character

6. THEME: What is the THEME of this passage?

When I walked up to the girl she stuck out her tongue and said “Get away from me!” I didn’t know what I did wrong until I talked to some kids on the playground. It turns out that she found out that I was speaking negatively about her dress earlier today. I said it made her look like a loaf of bread covered in grape juice. I feel really bad about it now, so I’m going home to bake her cookies and hopefully she’ll accept my apology.

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7. TONE/MOOD: Circle examples of tone/mood:

music hungry jumping inspirational sad

hopeful glue temperature happy uplifting

8. What is STYLE? ____________________________

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