Module

G11/12-CNF-MELC 5.5 4
STORY ELEMENTS Week
6-7
I What I Need to Know?

In order to provide a compelling personal creative nonfiction story, a writer has

to render the events truthfully as he or she writes from memory. The demand for
truthful writing makes the writer naked, ready to tell all the detours that life has taken
him or her. “The writer is committed to creative nonfiction as a way of inquiring and
knowing because creative nonfiction is located in the stories of daily experience
rendered with thoughtful care for aesthetic and ethics” (Sinner, 2013).

At time, creative nonfiction is looked upon as redundant phrases since it may be

viewed as fiction (Sinner, 2013). Nonetheless, it is normal for writers to experience
difficulty that feeling or being worn out as they try to reshape and rewrite the past.

Developing a solid understanding of the elements of a story is essential for our

students to follow and fully comprehend the stories they read. However, before
students can understand how these elements contribute to the overall meaning and
effect of a story, they must first be able to identify the component parts confidently.

At the end of the module, you should be able to:

1. Analyze factual/nonfictional elements (Plot, Characters, Characterization,
Point of View, Angle, Setting and Atmosphere, Symbols and Symbolisms,
Irony, Figures of speech, Dialogue, Scene, Other elements and Devices) in
the texts.

D What I Know?
Task 1: PRE-TEST

Direction: Read and analyze each statement and identify what is asked or described in
each statement. Choose your answer from the given choices.

1. What is the name for the time and place during which a story occurs?
A. Setting C. Plot
B. Location D. Exposition

2. What is the organized pattern or sequence of events in a story?

A. Plot C. Exposition
B. Conflict D. Setting

3. What is the term for the struggle between two forces?

A. Antagonist C. Protagonist
B. Conflict D. Climax

4. Which of the following is a type of internal conflict?

A. Man vs. Man C. Man vs. Nature
B. Man vs. Self D. Man vs. Society

5. Feeling or atmosphere that a write creates for the reader. Ex. "The heavy black clouds
became thick over the city and we all felt a sense of dread."
A. Mood C. Anatagonist
B. Character D. Plot

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D What is It?

Story Elements
Using
Elements of
Creative
Nonfiction

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 E What’s More?
Task 2: VENN DIAGRAM

Direction: Complete the circle below by writing the 5 Key elements of story and their
definition.

Task 3: WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?…

Direction: Complete the graphic organizer below by writing down all the elements that
you will find in a story. (copy of the story will be provided by the teacher)

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My comment/s:
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E What can I Engage In?

Task 4: APPLYING THE ANALYSIS

Directions: Analyze the given word cloud. From our lesson above, select 5 words that
you truly understand and write your own definition.

A What I have Learned?

Task 5: EXIT VISA: 3-2-1 CHART

EXIT VISA
Task: 3-2-1 chart

Have you learned so much from this module? Let us check the level of your
understanding through 3-2-1 chart.

3 best things I learned today:

1. _____________________________________________________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________________________________________________
3. _____________________________________________________________________________________

2 things that caught my interest:

1. ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________________________________

1 thing that I wanted to learn more about:

1. _____________________________________________________________________________________

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 A What I can Do?

Task 6: POST-TEST

A. Read and analyze each statement and identify what is asked or described in each
statement. Choose your answer from the given choices.

1. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot. Ex. "Our hero
is in a Wild West saloon. The hero walks in and orders a drink. Over in the corner, the
bad guy watches him drink. As the hero leaves, the bad guy spits on the floor (what do
you think will happen?)."
A. Foreshadowing C. Flasback
B. Climax D. Narration

2. A recurring theme, subject or idea. Ex. An author frequently touching on dark vs.
light or good versus evil. A candle could represent a light in darkness, or storm clouds
could represent temporary darkness.
A.Plot C. Setting
B. Motif D. Theme

3. A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Ex. Draco Malfoy, the Joker, the White Witch, Captain Hook.
A. Mood C. Protagonist
B. Motif D. Antagonist

4. A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. "As Keri cut
up the tiny pieces of paper, she thought about being a child making making crafts with
her mother."
A. Suspense C. Narration
B. Flashback D. Foreshadowing

5. Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story.
Ex. In Toy Story 3 when Woody and his friends think they might die in an incinerator.
Will they make it!?
A. Flashback C. Genre
B. Suspense D. Narration

6. When in a story do complications happen?

A. Exposition C. Rising Action
B. Climax D. Falling Action

7. What is the name for the perspective from which a story is told?
A. Point of View C. Character
B. Theme D. Setting

8. Figures of speech that go beyond literal meaning, like metaphor, simile,

personification, hyperbole
A. Symbolism C. Characterization
B. Mood D. Figurative Language

9. Objects that represent something important in the story or for the characters.
A. Juxtaposition C. Theme
B. Symbolism D. Tone

10. The way a writer creates and develops character is known as:
A. Characterization C. Imagery
B. Analogy D. Narrator

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B. Identification: Identify the term/concept being defined in the given statements.
For Nos. 6-10:
Conflicts Exposition Hyperbole
Dialogue Dramatic Question

_____________6. It is a literary style where two or more characters are involved in a

conversation for a particular subject and topic.
_____________7. These are problems, issues or situations that the characters needs to
resolve through time.
_____________8. It is the beginning information given by the writer in the story.
_____________9. It is a response from the inciting moment.
_____________10. It is a term for overstatement and exaggeration.

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