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Title: Setting


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Setting
  • Time Place of the action
  • Includes all the details of a time place (year,
    time of day, weather, country, city,
    neighborhood)
  • Dialect, clothing, customs, transportation help
    establish setting
  • It is the backdrop for most stories
  • It helps create mood and feeling

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Point of View
  • The perspective or vantage point, from which a
    story is told
  • 3 Types of Point of View
  • First person- point of view is told by a
    character who uses the first-person pronoun I
  • Omniscient third person- the narrator knows and
    tells about what each character feels and thinks
  • Limited third person- The narrator uses
    third-person pronouns such as he and she to
    refer to the characters.
  • Often a character who is telling the story about
    the main character

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Symbol
  • Anything that stands for or represents something
    else
  • Common in everyday life
  • Example
  • A blindfolded woman holding a balanced scale is a
    symbol or justice

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Conflict
  • The struggle between opposing forces
  • One of the most important elements of a story
    because it causes the action
  • Types of Conflict
  • Man vs. Man (External)
  • Man vs. Society (External)
  • Man vs. Nature (External)
  • Man vs. Self (Internal)
  • Man vs. Fate (Mythology and Drama)
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