Literary Components

You may want to focus on the events

You may be fascinated by the motivations of the protagonist

You may find that the description of the surroundings is key

You may notice that a narrator or character’s thinking is curious, contradictory, etc.

Or, you focus on what the author seems to be saying about human nature

mood or feeling conveyed by the author’s choice of language

the introduction and development of a conflict between characters or characters and a situation.

telling a story in order of events as they take place in time

some form of opposition presented to the main character

turning point in a narrative as it moves close to the story’s climax

an author’s or narrator’s spatial, temporal, or emotional removal from plot events

breaks up chronological flow of plot events to tell what happened at some past time

introduction of specific words or images that anticipate later events

story within a story, the “outer” story implying an important theme within the “inner” story

reader’s awareness that reality differs from that of the character’s perspective

an image used to make concrete an abstract idea--doesn't use like or similar to Ex: My love is a Grand Canyon of longing.

eternal and internal forces that cause characters to perform specific acts

narrator:
*omniscient: knows all thoughts of characters, and events
*limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters
*first-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character
*unreliable: narrator who lies or misrepresents reality on purpose
pace: rate at which the action progresses

*omniscient: knows all thoughts of characters, and events
*limited omniscient: knows the thoughts and feelings of certain characters
*first-person: uses “I” to tell the story, and may be a character
*unreliable: narrator who lies or misrepresents reality on purpose
pace: rate at which the action progresses

rate at which the action progresses