Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NARRATIVE ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
- These elements are part of the story that the shape the entire work
- Setting
- Is the envirometn in which a story or event
takes plan and can include specific
information about time and place
- Plot
- Sequence of events in a story. Most literary
essay tasks will instructs the writer to "avoid
plot summary" the term rarely useful for
response critical analysis
- Character
- Is the menta, emocional, and social qualites
to distinguish one entity from another
- Central Characters
- Are the vital to the development
of the story
- Protagonist
- Is the main character of
the story
- Antagonist
- Oppose protagonist
- Theme
- Is what the story is really about. Its
the main idea or underlying
meaning
- Major Theme
- An idea is intertwined and repeated
thrugout the whole narrative
- Minor Theme
- An idea the appears more subtly,
and doesnt necessarily repeat
- Conflict
- Is that drives the story. Its what
crates tension and build suspense
- Flashback
- In literature, a flashback is an
occurrence in which a character
remembers an earlier event that
happened before the current point of
the story
- Flash Forward
- Is a scene that take places
chronologically after the current
action and shows what is to come
- Foreshadowing
- Is a literary device in which the author
gives clues about events that will happen
later in the story
- Hook
- A narrative occurs at the start of a story and
is meant to "hook" the reader so that he or
she keeps turning pages, the best hooks are
just the first sentence of the book
- Plot Twist
- Is an suspected ocurrence or turn of events in
the story that completely changes the direction
of the plot from the direction or outcome of the
plot from the direction it was likely