5 Elements of Literature

The time and place where a story takes place; authors may use description of landscape, scenery, buildings, seasons, or weather.

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

• Character

• Conflict

A person or animal who takes part in the action of a short story

• Setting

• Plot

• Character

• Theme

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.W.8.3B

A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict ( what happens in the story)

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

A struggle between two people or things

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

• Charcter

• Conflict

The central idea or belief of the story; the central message

• Setting

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Deals with conflict against the way society feels about an issue.

• Man vs man

• Man vs self

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs society

A person battles something within themselves; no one else is involved

• Man vs man

• Man vs self

• Man vs nature

• Man vs society

A person against anything in nature

• Man vs man

• Man vs self

• Man vs nature

• Man vs society

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

One person struggles against another person

• Man vs man

• Man vs self

• Man vs nature

• Man vs society

The unfolding or solution of the conflict of the story (sometimes called the denouncement).

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Resolution

• Climax