Lesson 1
Elements of Fiction
Second Quarter | Creative Writing | Grade 11
Objectives
● Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in
various modes of fiction
● Write journal entries and other short compositions exploring key
elements of fiction
FICTION
A literary work created
from the imagination,
not presented as fact,
though it may be
based on a true story
or situation.
folktale myth
short
novel
story
The term is usually used for novels and short stories, but it also applies to
dramas and narrative poetry.
A work of fiction is written through the use of ordinary and natural
language with information or events that are not factual or real, because it
is invented and imaginary – that is made up by the author.
Elements of Fiction
1. Character
2. Setting
3. Plot
4. Point of View
5. Theme
● They are the people who or animals that make things
Character happen in fiction.
a. Flat character - drawn with only surface facts and details
b. Rounded character - deep and layered character in a story
The Necklace
Monsieur Loisel - flat character
Madame Mathilde Loisel - round character
● It presents the time, place, weather, and season.
Setting ● It helps create mood or the general feeling of the story.
a. time and place
b. sociological, cultural, political, religious
c. sensibilities that lead to specific modes
The Necklace
Paris - setting
● It is the sequence of interrelated actions or events that make
Plot up a story.
Climax
Rising Action Falling Action
Exposition Resolution
Plot
Exposition - the start of the story or the introduction of the
problem/conflict
Rising Action - the tension or uncertainty developing out of the
conflict increases
Climax - the point of highest emotional intensity
Falling Action - the action which follows the climax
Resolution - the solving of the problem
Types of Conflict
Plot
Man vs. Man Billy and Mark are competing
Struggles against another for the same lady.
character, a group, or society’s
rules
Man vs. Nature The man is protecting his house
Struggles of the character and family from a super
against a force of nature typhoon.
Man vs. Himself The woman, who has low
Struggle of the character with self-esteem, finds a way to help
personal feelings, values, or meet the expectations of the
needs people.
Point
● It is the eyes and mind through which the reader views the
of unfolding of events.
View
First Person Protagonist
● narrator is the character Major character
Minor character
● use of the pronoun “I” Frame narrator
Point
of
View
Second Person Instructional manuals
● rarest How-to-guides
● refers the readers as “you” Self-help books
Point
of
View
Third Person (limited) Third Person (omniscient)
● focuses on the character’s ● most flexible outside narration
perspective ● Narrator is not a character in
● the narrator can enter the the story and can tell what any
character’s mind or all characters are feeling and
thinking
● It is the central idea or meaning of a story.
Theme
a. Moral
b. Dramatic Premise
c. Insight
Additional Informational Videos:
Importance of Setting
https://youtu.be/30CPmgVQNks
Point of View
https://youtu.be/B5vEfuLS2Qc
How to write descriptively
https://youtu.be/RSoRzTtwgP4
References
Cayanan, Mark Anthony. Fine Lines: Writing Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. Sibs Publishing House, 2016
Gasulas, Allen, et al. Integrated English for Effective Communication: Creative Writing. First ed.,
The Phoenix Publishing House Inc., 2017.
MasterClass. “Round vs. Flat Characters: Definition, Differences, and Examples of Flat and Round
Characters in Fiction - 2020.” MasterClass, MasterClass, 2 Oct. 2020,
www.masterclass.com/articles/round-vs-flat-characters-in-fiction.
