Other

Elements
of Story
Learning Competency
• 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
ACTIVITY!
• Prepare one whole sheet of paper
and write your name on it. You will
pass your paper to the person next
to you, and she/ he will write a
statement that describes you or
anything that the person wants to
say to you. The sentence must
contain figurative expression.
Recall
1. How do you utilize the literary devices in narrating
your personal experience?
2. What are your strategies in choosing appropriate
figures of speech in describing your experience?
3. What is the help of figurative language in your
narratives?
Other
Elements
of Story
Character
• A character is a person, animal, being,
creature, or thing in a story. Writers use
characters to perform the actions and speak
dialogue, moving the story along a plot line. A
story can have only one character
(protagonist) and still be a complete story.
Characterization
• a writer’s tool, or “literary device” that occurs any time
the author uses details to teach us about a person. This
is used over the course of a story in order to tell the
tale.
Point of View
• is what the character or narrator telling the story can
see (his or her perspective). The author chooses “who”
is to tell the story by determining the point of view.
Depending on who the narrator is, he/she will be
standing at one point and seeing the action.
Angle
• The story angle is the specific viewpoint or
perspective from which a writer tells his or her
story – and often the same story can be told from
a different viewpoint.
Setting
• the time and place (or when and where) of the story. It’s a
literary element of literature used in novels, short stories,
plays, films, etc., and usually introduced during the exposition
(beginning) of the story, along with the characters. The setting
may also include the environment of the story, which can be
made up of the physical location, climate, weather, or social
and cultural surroundings.
Let us try!

1.An old castle

2.A farmland
3.A modern condominium
Atmosphere
• the overall mood of a story or poem. It’s usually something readers
can’t quite put their finger on – not a motif or a theme, but a “feel”
that readers get as they read. It’s very difficult to define, but you
know an atmosphere when you read it. Atmosphere mainly emerges
through description rather than action – it’s not what people do that
creates an atmosphere, but the settings and environments that
stage what they do.
Setting: Cemetery on a dark stormy night

Atmosphere: Thunder booming in the distance, wind

blowing through the trees, the sound of a shovel digging
dirt, dampness of the earth – forboding, ominous, dark

Mood: scary, anticipation

Symbols and Symbolism
• are often characters, settings, images, or other motifs that
stand in for bigger ideas. Authors often use symbols (or
“symbolism”) to give their work with more meaning and to
make a story be about more than the events it describes. This is
one of the most basic and widespread of all literary techniques.
Dialogue
• means “conversation.” In the broadest sense, this
includes any case of two or more characters
speaking to each other directly. But it also has a
narrower definition, called the dialogue form.
Scene
• is a section of your novel where a character or
characters engage in action or dialogue. You can
think of a scene as a story with a beginning,
middle, and an end. A chapter can contain one
scene or many scenes. Usually, the scenes within a
chapter are related.
Questions?
Activity!
• Directions: Based on your previous activity, identify the other elements
that you will use in order to improve your narration.
• Characters
• Characterization
• Point of View
• Angle
• Setting and Atmosphere
• Symbols and Symbolisms
• Dialogue
• Scene