Name:

Yancarlos Volquez V Student ID: 2018-30-3-0111

Eduardo A. Llano Student ID: 2019-30-3
Alexandra Student ID: 2019-30-3
Yefri Student ID: 2019-30-3
Angel Luis Jaime Student ID: 2018-30-3

Subject: ING-263 analysis of English.

Teacher: Claudio Polonia M.A

Topic: the main elements of literature

University: UNICDA
RESEARCH AND TELL THE DEFINITIONS OF THE 7 ELEMENTS
OF LITERATURE

Charácter:
A person or animal or really anything personified. There can be one main
character or many, and often there are secondary characters, but not always.

Setting
Refers to time periods, geographic locations, cultural contexts, immediate
surroundings, weather, times of day, or times of year employed in the story.

Plot
The plot consists of the events that happen in the story. In a plot you typically find an
introduction, rising action, a climax.

Tone:
The overall emotional “tone” or meaning of the story. Is it happy, funny, sad, depressed?
Tone can be portrayed in multiple ways, through word and grammar choices, choice of
theme, imagery and description, symbolism, and the sounds of the words in combination
(i.e. rhyme, rhythm, musicality).

Theme:
Refers to a broad idea or moral in a story. Remember, a good theme shouldn’t be
something broad like “death” and also cannot be something so specific, like “the death
of Violet” as to only be applicable to that one work

Conflict:
Every story must have a conflict, i.e. a challenge or problem around which the plot is
based. Without conflict, the story will have no purpose or trajectory.

Point-of-view
Who” is telling the story? First person (“I”) or third person (“he/she/it”). Limited (one
character’s perspective), multiple (many characters’ perspectives) or omniscient (all
knowing narrator). Second person (“you”) is not often used for writing stories.
 The Black Cat

"The black Cat" is a fictional story that shows the relationship between emotions and
our reaction to them. Poe describes how love and hate are related; the complexity these
emotions have, and how they merge. Due to alcoholism, the main character displays
extreme behaviors that lead him to commit atrocious acts in a quite particular way. I
found it interesting how the narrator always tries to demonstrate he is not mad and that
his actions are a product of an external force, whether it was the cats or his wife. The
story's set-up seems to be nice when the narrator expresses his devotion towards animals
and nature; then, drastically, the picture gets gray when the narrator loses his mind and
becomes a killer. The story gives me gothic style vibes, having most of the principal
elements of gothic style1.
It is noticeable how the writer created an environment of mystery and fear; also,
tragedies are preceded by lousy luck where the two black cats were the main villains. It
is also quite interesting the narrator's reaction to the tragedies and how he was tortured
in his own insanity. The cats were not the cause of his madness, but his state of mind
itself. The author adapts and changes his writing styles, depending on what he wants to
express. For instance, at one point, the reader could feel compassion for the narrator
when he was displaying his love for animals and nature; but after the narrator's
alcoholic and mental breakdown and in the climax (when he murders his wife with an
ax), the tone and the style changes to a darker and heavier one.

The author uses lots of metaphors, these being the most used figure of speech in the
story. Finally, the conflict is my favorite part of the story. In my opinion, the narrator
personalized his madness like cats and created a alter ego so he can pass as a sane
person. Every time his alter ego felt attacked by his real self – his madness – he has a
breakdown that makes him commit those horrible acts. I find it amazing how these inner
psychological fights occur in the story when it might seem to be a story easy to digest.
The psychological background and the inner moral conflicts make "The Black Cat" a
unique fictional tale.
 the main elements of literatura “Black Cat”

Charácters of the black cat

The Narrator
The Narrator's Wife
Pluto
The Second Cat

Setting of the black cat

The setting of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe is at first a jail cell, from which the
narrator relates his perverse actions in each of the homes he had previously inhabited.
These actions were the result of spending his time in taverns, abusing alcohol.

Plot of the black cat

The narrator is telling his story as a condemned man, flashing back to the beginning. He
was a peculiar boy, particularly fond of animals. He married young and his wife made
sure they had many animals, especially one particularly large black cat named Pluto.
The narrator confesses that he is an alcoholic, and this made him violent towards
everyone – his wife and his pets, but he was able to keep himself from abusing Pluto.
One night, in a drunken stupor, the narrator thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he seizes
him and cuts out one of his eyes. He is ashamed in the present of his deed, but back
then, his shame only lasted a short while. Pluto, of course, avoided the narrator and the
narrator began to be irritated by this.
The narrator becomes so angry at Pluto’s avoidance that one day, he decides to hang
him from a tree. Later that night, the narrator’s entire house burns down. The following
day, the narrator visits the ruins of the house and finds on the one standing wall an
image of a cat with a rope around its neck. The narrator explains it away, but is
nonetheless shaken. He begins to search for a new cat, and finds a large black one with
a white splotch on its chest at one of the taverns he frequents. The cat follows the
narrator home. The cat
loves the narrator, and because of his guilt from past deeds, the narrator begins to loathe
the cat. The cat is also missing an eye, like Pluto. The more the narrator avoids the cat,
the more he follows him. The spot on his chest begins to resemble a gallows,
frightening the narrator. One day, on the way to the cellar, the cat trips the narrator on
the stairs and he raises an axe to kill him; he is stopped by his wife, and in a rage, he
kills her with the axe instead.
The narrator walls his wife up within the wall of the cellar. The cat seems to have fled,
and the narrator sleeps peacefully for the first time in a long time. Three or four days
pass, and the police finally come to search the premises. The narrator, however, is
unbothered because he knows they’ll never find his wife. As the police are about to
leave the cellar and the premises for good, the narrator takes his cane and raps on the
cellar wall to boast about the construction of the house.
Tone of the black cat
The tone in The Black Cat was paranoid and disturbed. The narrator is paranoid that his
cat was a reminder of the crime

Theme of the black cat

The tone in The Black Cat was paranoid and disturbed. The narrator is paranoid that his
cat was a reminder of the crime.

Conflict of the black cat

One night, in a drunken stupor, the narrator thinks Pluto is avoiding him, so he seizes
him and cuts out one of his eyes. He is ashamed in the present of his deed, but back
then, his shame only lasted a short while. Pluto, of course, avoided the narrator and the
narrator began to be irritated by this.

Point-of-view of the black cat

My point of view is that the narrator was too exaggerated, and also this little one
contains a bit of a spooky plot. There is very little literature with that characteristic
anymore.