The Elements in children story

1. Characters

2. Plot

3. Setting

4. Point of view

5. Style and tone

6. Literary Rhythm

7. Themes

Characters

Types of Characters

•People Animals Creators

Elements of character

• Protagonist (Good guy)

• Antagonist(Bad guy)

• Foil Character

• Main characters

• Minor Characters

• Flat characters

• Round Characters

• Anthropomorphic

Characters are developed by

• Actions

• Speech

• Appearance

• Other character's comments

• Author's comments

• Unity of character and action

A writer can tell you about the character

Directly: (long ago in faraway kingdom ,there lived a girl her name is Cinderella .she was kind, smart and beautiful)

Indirectly: what does the character say and what does she like?

Snow White is sweet kind and lovely girl she helps and likes seven dwarves

She almost dies Her mother is cruel to her

• CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER:

SNOW WHITE IS:

A-round character

B-main character

C-flat character

Think about your favorite character, movie or series

• Who is this character name?

• What does he, she likes ?

• What kind of personality this character has?

Rising Action

climax

Falling action

Exposition Resolution

Pattern of action

Sensationalism: Cliffhanger

ForeshadowingSuspense

Plot

• The plot is the events or series that take place in the story

• The plots tells what happen in the story

• Every story needs a plot

• It has different parts

“The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?“

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024660/plotsummary

Form conflicts

Protagonist vs. Antagonist

Person-against-self

Person-against-person

Person-against-society

Person-against-nature

FUN TIME

You have to read story that you like and identified PATTERN ACTION ,then write it down

WHAT IS

Raising action……….

Climax……………

Falling action………

Exposition……..

Resolution………

setting

• The time and place of the story

• Integral setting very important in the story

• Backdrop setting less important in the story

• It can describe

• Time of day, year or history

• Also can describe scenery ,weather location or area

Use the five senses to description the setting

• Sound

• Feel

• Sight

• Taste

• smell

Example

“It’s Christmas Eve, and Suzy Goose and her friends are admiring their beautifully decorated tree. It’s perfect except for one thing: a star for the top. But Suzy sees just the right one, high in the sky, and no one can stop her from trying every possible way to get it! Bold, expressive illustrations follow the charmingly single-minded goose in a new adventure, a tale of seasonal magic found in surprising places”http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2012/12/stories-of-christmas-24-great-books-for.html

Point of view

• The sound that is telling the story

• The types of point of view :

• First-person (First person ” I “) for example ‘’one day I went to the farm and I saw amazing things…

• Omniscient (third person she ,he or they )" they asked in a fox, who jumped in form the trees “

• Objective or dramatic point of view(There is no explanation to the reader of what is happening or what the characters think or feel

Style and tone

The ways how the author uses words, sentences , phrases and organization

How the author tell or say something upon the story

Sentence structure

• Imagery

• Figurative language

• Figure of speech

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Allusion

• Symbol

Devices of sound

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Rhythm

Rhythm

• It create repeated pattern of sounds or movements in the story• It makes musical type in the story

• The occurrence of the same sound at the end of two or more words

• exampleshop-pop

Sing-songDrooping-pooping

best-rest“One day we were playing outside in our yard

When my brother got mad and he pushed me so hard That I pushed him right back - with all of my might -

And quick as a wink we were having a fight!”http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml

Examples of rhythm books

Activity for Rhythm

Choose anything in this picture and make musical sounds by two words have the same patternCat

Boy

Fat

Mouse

Pen

Apple

Tree

For example

The boy has a hat cute like a cat

Theme• The main idea or underlying meaning

in the story• The message that may the author wants

to telling to us • It might about life or human nature• It not stated directly but It must be

inferred • It Tells us what did we learn from the

story

Types of theme

• Implied theme( must be inferred by all the elements of the story ,what

the message did you learn)• Stated theme(directly presented

and easily defined )

You can recognize the theme in the story by

• Story tittles

• Key words ,phrases, statements in the story about the main idea

Finding themes in Cinderella story?

• What is the topic and main idea?

• How do characters in this story give you lesson or something important in the life?

References

• www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml• www.homeofbob.com/literature/genre/fiction/ficElmnts.html