Literary+Elements


 * Literary Elements**

Literary Elements must be used in a text to make it more interesting. Some literary elements include: characterisation and irony. They are almost always used in texts and poems.
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 * Allegory: **

Dictionary Definition: a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

__Working definition: __  It is a hidden meaning or moral in a story, movie or poem

Example:

C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia - generic allegorical elements of good and evil, as well as many Christian themes.


 * **__Antagonist: __**

__Dictionary Definition: __  person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something __Working Definition __ : A person against the protagonist in a book, movie... __Examples: <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">  __ <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">-In the Harry Potter novels and movies, Draco Malfoy is the antagonist. <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">-In Cinderella, the step sisters are the antagonists.

**__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Character: __** __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">[|Dictionary Definition] __ <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">: a person in a novel, play, or film __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Working Definition: __ <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">a person in a play or book. __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Examples: __ **__<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Climax: __** __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Dictionary Definition __ <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">: the most intense, exciting, or important point of something __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Working Definition __ :<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> the most exciting and interesting part of a book, movie, play... __<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Example: __
 * <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jake from the television show two and a half men
 * <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Ivy from the novel kissed by an angel
 * <span style="font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jacob from the movie Twilight
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Cinderella is at the ball in the movie
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when Harry Potter kills Voldemort

**// __Mood:__ //**
stat or quality of feeling at a particular time. How a person feels at the moment. A situation can also feel heavy. 1) ‘Those are always my favourite' 2) ‘I want to go to an exotic restaurant’ =**// Moral: //**= Concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong. End of a story there is usually a moral. Especially kids books. 1) ‘Do not cry wolf for no reason. Or else they won’t listen when it really will happen.’(the little boy who the wolf, novel)
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Pathos:

O.E.D(n) A quality that evokes pity or sadness.

__Example__: Shakespeare's //Romeo and Juliet// is a great example of because it is a tragic love story which creates an emotional response which is feeling pitiful for Romeo and Juliet.

__Example__: The example of pathos in Thomas Hardy's //Far from Madding Crow// is when Fanny is supposed to go and marry Troy but by accident goes to the wrong church, so Troy calls of the wedding.

__Example__: This is an example of pathos because it makes the reader want to donate to the charity



Plot:
O.E.D(n) The main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

Working definition: the important parts of a story.

Point Of View:
O.E.D(n) The position from which something or someone is observed

__Working definition__: The perspective of something or someone.

__Example__: "I try not to, but I can't help thinking of my mother and Prim, wondering if they will sleep a wink tonight." Quote from //Hunger Games// by Suzanne Collins. This quote is written in the first person perspective, Katniss is says this.

__Example__: "Riva Reich, from a well-to-do family in Stolpce, urged her relatives to follow the retreating troops. But her mother who had been a fugitive during World war I refused to leave." Quote from //Defiance// by Nechama Tec. This quote is written in the third person.

__Example__: "The Russians released Karl in 1949, four years after the war had ended." Quote from //THE BOY WHO DARED// by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. This quote is written in the fourth person.




 * Protagonist:**

O.E.D (n) The leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film novel, etc..

Working definition: The main character of the story.

Example: Holden Caufield is the protagonist in the book //The Catcher in the Rye// by J.D Salinger.

Example: Harry Potter is the protagonist of a series of books by J.K Rowling

Example: Alice is the protagonist of the book //Alice in Wonderland// by Lewis Carroll = =

Setting
[|O.E.D](N) The place and time at which a play, novel or film is represented as happening.

__Working definition__: The environment of the story.

__Example__: Most of the setting in //Ender's G////ame,// by Orson Scott Card, is at Battle School in space, it is based on the future.

__Example__: Most of the setting in the Harry Potter series, by J.K Rowling, is at Hogwarts, a wizard school.

__Example__: Most of the setting in //The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis is in Narnia.//



<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Theme: <span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">OED Definition: An idea that recurrs in or pervades a work of art or literature.

<span class="wiki_link_ext" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Our definition: <span style="font-family: 'courier new',courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">The main idea of a story.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Eg:"Love is blind,""Don't judge a book by its cover" and "Love bites."

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Tone: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">OED Definition: The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Our definition: An emotion or feeling of a story, poem.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Eg: Happy, angry and confused.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Speaker: <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">OED Definition: A person who speaks.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Our Definition: A person who speaks in a poem or story.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 19px;">Eg: A protagonist, antagonist and third person.