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