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NARRATI

ELEMEN VE
TS Setting,
Character, Plot,
Point-of-view
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Setting Plot
01 Keywords:
Keywords:
introduction, rising action,
03
time and place
climax, falling action,
Point of
resolution

Character View
02 Keywords:
protagonist and
Keywords:
first, second, and
04
antagonist third person
SETTING

It covers:
• time (past, present, future)
• location (physical) or social and cultural conditions in
which the characters exist

When examining setting, there are multiple aspects to consider:

1. PLACE
Geographical location; where is the action of the story taking
place?
2. TIME
Historical period, time of day, year, etc; when is the story taking
CHARACTER
•
(1)
a person, animal, or anything personified.
• can be one main character or many, and often there are
secondary characters, but not always.

1. Character in a work of fiction can be a(n):


• Protagonist: Clear center of story; all major events
are important to this character.
• Antagonist: Opposition or "enemy" of main
character
2. Characteristics of a character can be revealed through:
• physical appearance
• what the character says, thinks, feels, dreams and what
he/she does or does not do
• what others say about him/her and how others react to
him/her
CHARACTER
3. Characters can be ...
• Round: Fully developed personalities that are
affected by the story’s events; they can learn,
grow, or deteriorate by the end of the story.
Characters are most convincing when they
resemble real people by being consistent,
motivated, and life- like.
• Flat/static: one-dimensional character;
character does not go through a change
• Dynamic: Character who goes through
change and "grows" during a story
• How the author arranges events to develop the basic
PLO idea.
• consists of the events that happen in the story.
T • often represented as an arc.

Introduction Rising Action Climax


Beginning of the Events in the story become Turning point of the
story; characters, complicated; conflict is story. Readers
background, and revealed. These are events wonders what will
setting revealed. between the introduction and happen next; will the
climax. conflict be resolved
or not?
Falling Action Resolution
Resolution begins; Final outcome of
events and events in the story.
complications start to
fall into place.
POINT OF VIEW

First Second Third


Person Person Person
is marked by is marked by pronoun is marked by
pronoun “I”, the “you”, transforming the pronouns “he, she,
character reader into a character it, they”, the
becomes the to bring them closer to narrator is outside
narrator the story the characters
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