Genre and Literary Elements

The essential parts of a story that make it interesting 

• Genre

• Summarize

• Paraphrase

• Literary Elements

Is a person, animal, or any object with a personality that appears in a story.

• Conflict

• Genre

• Characters

• Protagonist

leading or main character in a fictional literary text (good guy)

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Genre

• Conflict

character in conflict with the main character (bad guy)

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Characterization

• Conflict

Is the time and place of action in a story

• Plot

• Character

• Setting

• Conflict

The problem/ struggle,which may be in internal, external, or both

• Point of View

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

Man vs self (struggle within self)

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Setting

• Characterization

Struggle with an outside force

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Plot

• Genre

struggle with another character

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Society

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Technology

main character has a struggle with social institutions such as school, government, community

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Society

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Technology