1. 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Elements of Fiction

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

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

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

9. MINOR CHARACTER
a less important character in a story

10. STATIC CHARACTER
a character that changes little or not at all

11. DYNAMIC CHARACTER
a character that changes significantly

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

13. ANTAGONIST
the force working against the main character

14. CHARACTERIZATION
the ways a writer creates and develops a character

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

16. CONFLICT
a struggle between two opposing forces

17. 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

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

19. PLOT
the sequence of events that make up a story

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

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

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

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

24. Closure: Freytag’s Pyramid

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

27. POINT OF VIEW
the perspective from which a story is told

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

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

30. SETTING
the time and place of the action in a story

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

32. 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

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

34. 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.”

35. 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.