1. Narrative Elements

2. Setting The setting is the place in which a story takes place.
Why is the setting important?
The setting of Echo and Narcissus is the mountains of Greece

3. Plot All stories have a plot.
The plot is just a name for a sequence of events.
Every plot should have:
Initiating event
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Resolution

4. Climax
Rising Action
Falling Action
Initiating Event
Resolution

5. Initiating Event
The initiating event is the event that triggers the conflict in the plot of a story.
Echo chatters away, detaining Hera so that Zeus can sneak back to Mount Olympus. Echo falls in love with Narcissus.

6. Rising Action
The rising action are the series of events that lead up to the main conflict in the story.
Hera robs Echo of the ability to speak, except to repeat what others say.

7. Climax The climax is the struggle between opposing forces.
There are two types of conflicts:
External conflict
Internal conflict
Echo falls in love with Narcissus and tries to win his love, but he does not want anything to do with her. Echo is saddened and dies alone in a cave.

8. Falling Action
The falling action occurs when the conflict begins to unravel and leads to the resolution of the story.
Echo dies, and Aphrodite punished Narcissus.

9. Resolution
The resolution is the last part of the story, and where the loose ends of the plot are tied up and the story is closed.
Echo fades, and Narcissus
becomes the flower that we
know today.

10. Group Activity Read each slip of paper carefully.
Put the pieces of paper in order to complete the story.
Identify each part of the story.
Select ONE group member to read the story aloud.
You have 10 minutes.

11. Conflict Without conflict, there is no plot!
The plot is created around the conflict.
Introduced in the RISING ACTION
Is faced head-on during CLIMAX
Begins to work itself out during FALLING ACTION
Is resolved during RESOLUTION

12. Types of Conflict External Conflict Internal Conflict
An external conflict is between a character and an outside force.
Internal Conflict
An internal conflict is between a character and his/her self

13. Types of Conflict External Conflict Internal Conflict
Individual vs. Individual
Individual vs. Nature
Individual vs. society
Individual vs. Supernatural
Individual vs. Technology
Internal Conflict
Individual vs. Self

14. External Conflict Individual vs. Individual
A character struggles with another character
Protagonist vs. antagonist
The classic “good guy” vs. “bad guy” situation

15. External Conflict Individual vs. Nature
A character struggles with a force of nature (natural disaster, animal, etc)
Usually, the character is struggling to survive.

16. External Conflict Individual vs. Society
A character or a group of characters fight against the society in which they live.
The character fights against social traditions or rules (fight for freedom, rights, for a cauce, etc)
Society becomes a “character” of its own.

17. External Conflict Individual vs. Supernatural
A conflict between a character and a god, monsters, super-human power, ghost, aliens, etc

18. External Conflict Individual vs. Technology
A conflict between a character and machine/computer.

19. Internal Conflict Individual vs. Self
The character’s struggle takes place in his/her mind.
Usually has something to do with a choice (choosing between right and wrong), or it may have to do with overcoming emotions or mixed feelings.