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Literary Elements

The document discusses various literary elements and techniques. It defines a literary element as an essential part of a composition that structures the work, similar to how a stock camera app cannot be uninstalled from a phone. In contrast, literary techniques depend on the author's style and are optional like apps that can be uninstalled. The document provides examples of literary elements like character, conflict, setting, and plot point of view. It also gives brief definitions and classifications for each element.

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Literary Elements

The document discusses various literary elements and techniques. It defines a literary element as an essential part of a composition that structures the work, similar to how a stock camera app cannot be uninstalled from a phone. In contrast, literary techniques depend on the author's style and are optional like apps that can be uninstalled. The document provides examples of literary elements like character, conflict, setting, and plot point of view. It also gives brief definitions and classifications for each element.

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LITERARY

ELEMENTS &
TECHNIQUES
MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCY

Compare and contrast the various 21st century


literary genres and the ones from the earlier
genres/period, citing elements, structure, and
traditions.
SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE GOT!
1. The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its
peak.
2. A fire station burns down!
3. A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story
or play
4. Provides crucial tension of the story and is used to drive the narrative forward.
5. The reader knows something the characters do not. In the movie “Home
Alone,” we know Kevin planted traps, but the thieves do not.
LITERARY DEVICE
LITERARY ELEMENT
- a stock camera app
can’t be uninstalled
since it is an important
LITERARY TECHNIQUE feature of a cellphone.
- Facebook is an app
that can be uninstalled
which is optional to a
user.
LITERARY DEVICE
LITERARY ELEMENT
- similarly, a literary
element is an essential
LITERARY TECHNIQUE literary device that
- likely, literary structures a
techniques depend on composition
the necessity of the
author to bring his/her
own style of
composition.
MORSELS
OF
MEMORY
by CHARLOTTE ANINION-DE GUZMAN
MORSELS OF MEMORY
by Charlotte Aninion-De Guzman

They came, almost everyday, at different times of the day, pilgrims of my


mother’s cooking. They did not knock, because everyone knew that our
door was never locked. And she welcomed them with a smile, a warm
coffee and with the delicious smell of food that was always slowly cooking
on our stove.

There was Aling Nita who seemed to be always fretting about one thing or
another, that her once straight hair suddenly turned curly and white
overnight. Then the group of glorious gay men working at a nearby beauty
parlor who can shake our house with their laughter. And poor little lost
Ada who was always playing hide-and-seek with love, while her sister
Maya dreamed of flying to distant lands and seas where she said her life
waits for her, and I could not help but wonder how she can walk and talk
without the breath of life in her languid sinewy body. But they were not
the only ones, there were countless others who sat in our small round
kitchen table while my mother fed their hunger. Perhaps that was my
mother’s tragedy, like the stew that was always cooking on her stove, her
nose was too soft and her heart too open.
ACTIVITY DISCUSSION QUESTION

What is the emotional response you get


after reading the story?
ACTIVITY DISCUSSION QUESTION

“Perhaps that was my mother’s tragedy…


her nose was too soft and her heart too
open.”
What was this line referring to? What is
the message of the story?
ACTIVITY DISCUSSION QUESTION

Morsels of Memory” is a story by


Charlotte Aninion-De Guzman that shows
how compassion teaches people to look
past their own troubles to see others.
How is compassion manifested in the
story?
ACTIVITY DISCUSSION QUESTION

What troubles did the character look


beyond because of her compassion
towards others?
ACTIVITY DISCUSSION QUESTION

How does compassion teach us to


look past our own troubles to see
others? How do you develop your
compassion?
ELEMENTS
OF
LITERATURE
IN-DISCUSSION ACTIVITY!
ELEMENT ANALYSIS

1.Who are the characters?


Character/s 2.Are they round or flat in terms of personality?
3.Are they flat or dynamic?
4.What was the nature of the conflict?
Conflict 5.How is the conflict resolved?
6.When and where does the story take place?
Setting 7.How do you elaborate the setting in terms of its
societal context?
8.Exposition:
Plot 9.Rising Action:
10.Climax:
11.Falling Action:
12.Denouement
13.What is the POV of the story?
Point of View 14.How is this being used?
CHARACTER
Any person, animal, or figure
represented in a literary work.
CLASSIFICATIONS OF CHARACTERS
ACCORDING TO IMPORTANCE
a) Main
b) Minor
ACCORDING TO ROLE
a) Protagonist
b) Antagonist
c) Foil
d) Confidante
ACCORDING TO DEVELOPMENT
a) Dynamic
b) Static
ACCORDING TO PERSONALITY
a) Round
b) Flat
CONFLICT
Characterized by a struggle between two
opposing forces
TYPES OF CONFLICT

• Man VS. Man


• Man VS. Nature
• Man VS. Society
• Man VS. Self
• Man VS. Technology
• Man VS. Supernatural
SETTING
The when and where of a literary text.
SETTINGS
• Place
• Time
• Weather condition
• Social Condition
PLOT
The sequence of events that make up
a story.
POINT OF VIEW
what the character or narrator telling
the story can see (his or her
perspective)
Point of View
Point of View
SHOW US WHAT YOU’VE GOT!
1. The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its
peak. CLIMAX
2. A fire station burns down! SITUATIONAL IRONY
3. A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story
or play ANTAGONIST/VILLAIN
4. Provides crucial tension of the story and is used to drive the narrative forward.
5. The reader knows something the characters
CONFLICT do not. In the movie “Home
Alone,” we know Kevin planted traps, but the thieves do not.
DRAMATIC IRONY
Continue working on your
Performance Check!
1. Read the 2 literary texts (The
Describe one
Vaccine by Jim Bartlett and presentation of
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe (1942). the literary
2. Then, follow the instruction to element in the
continue your graphic
organizer: literary texts.

BOOM!
THE VACCINE
By Jim Barnett
THE VACCINE
By Jim Barnett
THANK
YOU FOR
LISTENING!

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