Monday, September 18th Greetings, future adults. Please respond to the following in your notebook(NOW): What is one thing you are looking forward to this week? Tonight’s Homework: Reading Log is Due Tomorrow

Today’s Big Idea and Key Questions A work of fiction, like any other type of art, is comprised of certain components, or ingredients, that all work to create a story that is worth reading What are the ingredients that work together to make a work of fiction? What is character? What are the different types of character and character conflicts? What is plot? What are the ingredients of a plot?

Today you will Identify and define different elements of fiction -Character -Conflict -Plot …and more! Recall what you learn and apply it to your own experiences with literature

Elements of Fiction

Character a set of qualities that make a person, place, or thing different from other persons, places, or thingS

CHARACTER a person, animal or imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a story

MAIN CHARACTER the focus character in a story (most important)

MINOR CHARACTER a less important character in a story

STATIC CHARACTER a character that changes little or not at all

DYNAMIC CHARACTER a character that changes significantly

PROTAGONIST the main character in the story who is involved in the conflict

ANTAGONIST the force working against the main character

CHARACTERIZATION the ways a writer creates and develops a character

FOUR LENSES OF CHARACTER Looks Thoughts/feelings Actions Viewed by others Talk the talk vs walk the walk

CONFLICT a struggle between two opposing forces

when a character struggles against some outside person or force EXTERNAL CONFLICT when a character struggles against some outside person or force character v. character character v. society character v. nature character v. fate

a struggle within a character INTERNAL CONFLICT a struggle within a character character v. self

PLOT the sequence of events that make up a story

introduces the setting, characters and conflict in the story EXPOSITION introduces the setting, characters and conflict in the story

the plot gets more complicated; leads up to the climax RISING ACTION the plot gets more complicated; leads up to the climax

CLIMAX the point of highest interest or suspense in a story; the turning point

RESOLUTION the loose ends are tied up and the story comes to a close

Closure: Freytag’s Pyramid

Closure Part Two Tonight’s Homework: Reading Log Due Tomorrow

POINT OF VIEW the perspective from which a story is told

FIRST PERSON when the narrator is a character in a story (I, me, we)

THIRD PERSON when the narrator is not a character in the story (he, she, it, they)

SETTING the time and place of the action in a story

THEME the moral, message, or lesson about life that the writer wants the reader to learn

IRONY humorous or scornful use of words to express the opposite of what one really means; what is said or written is not what is meant

VERBAL IRONY Contrast between what is said and what is meant Nice weather we are having!

DRAMATIC IRONY Contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true. When the reader is “in on a secret.”

SITUATIONAL IRONY contrast between what happens and what is expected. someone playing a prank on someone else, it backfires, and the prankster gets a pie in the face.