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Understanding Literary Elements: Character, Setting, Plot, Narrator, and Figurative Language

This unit focuses on identifying and describing textual details that reveal character, setting, plot, narrator perspective, and figurative language. Learn key terminology and develop skills in analyzing these elements in a short story.

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Understanding Literary Elements: Character, Setting, Plot, Narrator, and Figurative Language

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  1. Short Story Unit 1 This unit is on going. Many of the terms will be referenced in each unit, while some units will focus on particular terms.

  2. Objectives Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective and motives. Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting. Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative. Explain the function of a particular sequence of events in a plot. Identify and describe the narrator or speaker of a text. Identify and explain the function of point of view in a narrative. Develop a paragraph that includes * a claim that requires defense with evidence from the text * and the evidence itself.

  3. Character Skill: Explain the function of a character. Terminology: Major/Minor characters Protagonist/Antagonist Characterization-Direct and Indirect, Complexity of characters Dynamic/Static character Internal/External conflict Foil characters Dialogue Epiphany Narrator Details/Description Speaker Perspective

  4. Setting Skill: Explain the function of a setting. Objective: Identify and describe specific textual details that convey or reveal a setting.

  5. Plot and Structure Skill: Explain the function of plot and structure. Terminology: Antithesis Imagery Structural Convention Archetypes In medias res Structure Catharsis Juxtaposition Suspense Chronology Pacing Tone Dramatic situation (of a narrative) Punctuation Unresolved ending Exposition Resolution Episodes Flashback Irony (situational and verbal) Paradox Focus Story vs narrative Foreshadowing Stream of consciousness

  6. Narrator Skill: Explain the function of narrator or speaker. First-person narrator Third-person narrator Omniscient and limited Narrative distance Reliability of narrator

  7. Figurative Language Skills: Explain the function of word choice, imagery, and symbols. Explain the function of comparisons. Terminology: Alliteration Hyperbole Understatement Ambiguity Literal image Image Antecedent Main subject (simile) Allusions Archetypal Metaphor Motif Associations Personification Conceit Comparison subject (simile) Sensory imagery Associations Exaggeration Simile Referent Extended metaphor Symbol Minimizing

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