1. Without using your phone, define these terms with your group:
Setting Characterization Theme Conflict Structure Symbolism

2. Literary Elements

3. Setting The environment the story takes place in
Usually includes time and place

4. characterization

5. Theme is:
the author’s message about human beings or about life.

6. Theme the author’s central, universal message
is about human beings or about life

7. THEME IS: a message about the main idea a moral
often about human nature.
implied in the text; not directly stated.
universal but specific to the story.
written as a complete sentence.
THEME IS NOT:
a moral
advice or “you should” statement
found in a sentence in the book
generic (fortune cookie-y)
a one-word idea, two-word phrase, or a summary

8. you still have to take notes

9. • GOOD EXAMPLE: BAD EXAMPLE:
Adversity impacts even the strongest relationships.
All families fight; strong families fight fair.
Money, like other temptations, can cause people to do bad things.
BAD EXAMPLE:
Struggle
You should be nice.
Money is used to
buy things.

10. Conflict: the struggle or problem in a text

11. Structure
The organization of the information. Knowing how to recognize the underlying structure you focus your attention on the key ideas and details.

13. symbolism
an object that represents an idea

14. Figurative Language
Why do authors use it?