Literary Elements

​any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. 

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​Characters can have many traits that change and grow over time just like people in real life.

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Traits:

Impatient, proud, selfish, mature, creative, loving, funny, clever, etc.​

• ​The Protagonist

  • ​​the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

• ​The Antagonist

  • ​A character in a story who opposes, or goes against the protagonist.

​The lesson, moral, or message of a story.

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​The lesson a main character learns, that we can all learn from in our lives.

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​Example: Never be afraid to start over

​Where and when a story take place

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​Where and when the story takes place can impact the whole story!

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​Winter vs. Summer

​Future vs. Past

​Earth vs. Mars

​2020 vs. 2018

​Day vs. Night

​The series of events in a story.

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​Exposition

​Conflict & Rising Action

​Climax

​Falling action

​Resoloution

​The exposition is the beginning of the story (setting and characters introduced).

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​In the first few chapters

Conflict & Rising action is what happens in a story leading up to the most exciting part of a story. Often includes problems that the characters have to face and solve

Climax the most exciting part, or major turning point of the plot 

Falling action is every action in the story after the climax and before the very end.​

​Resolution: the way in which the problem in the story is solved. How things end up in the story.