Point of view: the position of the narrator to the story, it’s the narrator's outlook from the events depicted and by the attitude toward the characters. Ex: If the author uses first person they will use “I” because it takes the reader through the eyes of the main character. As if it was a diary or a journal.
Conflict: a fight, battle, or struggle. Ex: If a character is having an internal conflict, they are fighting battles within themselves. Whereas, if a character is having an external conflict, than their fighting a battle with another force of object.
Protagonist: the leading character, hero, or heroine. Ex: the protagonist in Beowulf is Beowulf because he carries hero characteristics.
Antagonist: a person who struggles against, or competes with another person. Ex:
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the antagonist in Beowulf could be either Grendel or the Dragon because they both oppose the protagonist and have negative wants. Alliteration: the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter. Ex: apt alliteration's artful afterwards. Assonance: resemblance of sounds. Ex: penitent and reticence. Consonance: correspondence of sounds or harmony of sounds. Ex: Dawn goes down. Kenning: a conventional poetic phrase used for the name of a person or thing. Ex: Bookworm is usually someone who reads a lot. Diction: style of speaking or writing of words. Ex: In Beowulf Grendel is referred to as “that demon, that fiend…” (pg. 13). Tone: an accent peculiar to a person or a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech. Ex: In Beowulf there are numerous tones. For example, there’s formal, mournful, and pious. Mood: an intense emotional tone or attitude.
Ex: The mood of a story shows whether the story is happy, sad, angry, etc.
Allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something. Ex: Pinocchio’s nose could be an example. If someone’s lying and you say their nose should be growing like Pinocchio’s.
Motif: a recurring subject, theme, or idea. Ex: a recurring theme in Beowulf is good vs. evil.
Theme: a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition. Ex: The main theme in Beowulf is good vs. evil
Irony: words to convey a meaning that’s the opposite of its literal meaning. Ex: Some dramatic irony in Beowulf is when Beowulf fights Grendel’s mother.
Symbolism: the practice of representing things by symbols, or investing things with a symbolic meaning. Ex: The sword in Beowulf could be symbolism in the story.
Characterization: the act of characterizing or describing the individual quality of a person. Ex: A characteristic of Beowulf is that he is very heroic.
Static Character: a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change. Ex: Beowulf is a static character because he undergoes little change throughout the story. For the most part he stays the
same. Dynamic Character: a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change. Ex: Grendel would be considered a dynamic character because I feel as if he changed a bit throughout the story. Flat Character: an easily recognized character who’s not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some purpose. Ex: A flat character could be someone who really isn’t there for the whole story but is still a part of the story. Round Character: a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully detailed by the author. Ex: Beowulf is a round character because the author fully describes him and is fully delineated by the author.
“ The horizon was the color of milk. Cold and fresh. Poured out among the bodies” (Zusak 175). The device is used in the evidence of the quote by using descriptives words that create a mental image. The text gives the reader that opportunity to use their senses when reading the story. “Somehow, between the sadness and loss, Max Vandenburg, who was now a teenager with hard hands, blackened eyes, and a sore tooth, was also a little disappointed” (Zusak 188). This quote demonstrates how the author uses descriptive words to create a mental image which gives the text more of an appeal to the reader's sense such as vision. “She could see his face now, in the tired light. His mouth was open and his skin was the color of eggshells. Whisker coated his jaw and chin, and his ears were hard and flat. He had a small but misshapen nose” (Zusak 201). The quotes allows the reader to visualize what the characters facial features looked like through the use of descriptive words. Imagery helps bring the story to life and to make the text more exciting. The reader's senses can be used to determine the observations that the author is making about its characters. The literary device changes the text by letting the reader interact with the text by using their observation skills. The author is using imagery by creating images that engages the reader to know exactly what's going on in the story which allows them to
Theme is the subject of talk, a topic, or morals that the author is trying to get readers to comprehend. When reading an excerpt, the theme is not directly stated in the text, so you must dig deeper into the context to understand the matter trying to be portrayed. In both Angela's Ashes and The Street, we can distinguish a like theme of struggling through life’s complications. After reading the two different stories, we could select the theme from using character, events, and the setting.
Characterization is generally defined as a graphic description of a character. It could be vague or straight to the point. For example, in page 4 of Butter, a scene is described where Butter refrains from snacking any further, offended by a girl on T.V expressing her opinion on charging obese people more for taking up more than one seat on an airplane. “Can’t a guy enjoy a little sandwich in his own living
are characters that can be defined by their traits as certain archetypes. All novels and films contain archetypes that allow their audience to understand and relate more to
Stories frequently use both figurative language and tone to shape their meaning(s). In his short story, “The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe uses Imagery to enhance his tone of foreshadowing to illustrate the franticness at the end of the story.
The most prominent example of this is the imagery of the wallpaper and the way the narrator’s opinion on the wallpaper slowly changes throughout the story; this directly reflects what is happening within the narrator’s mind. At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes the wallpaper as “Repellent.revolting. a smoldering unclean yellow” (Gilman 377). As the story continues, the narrator starts to become obsessed with the wallpaper and her opinion of it has completely changed from the beginning. Symbolism plays a big part in “The Yellow Wallpaper” too.
In addition, there is also a protagonist found in King Lear and Much Ado’s narrative structure. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a protagonist is the p...
...rves the way for the plot, the theme is the central idea around which a literary piece revolves. Without the theme the plot would be meaningless and there would be nothing for the readers to derive from the literary piece. Without the plot, the theme would be meaningless as there would be nowhere to consign the message the writer intends to give the reader. It can be said that the plot and theme are the two most important literary elements of a literary piece and are inter-dependant.
Theme is the underlying power beneath a story; the “force” that makes the whole experience worthwhile. Theme is “an idea or message that the writer wishes to convey” (Holt 874). A theme can be either stated or implied. A stated theme is a theme “that the other expresses directly in his work (protic.net); an implied theme is a theme “that is not directly stated in the work” (protic.net). As mentioned before, both of these stories have an implied theme, which now is revealed to mean that the author of the story insinuated it. Themes exist in all stories (verbal or written) and can be long, short, true or false. “Earth people will beat out any other intelligent life-form in any and all competitions” is a theme, but “good always beats evil” is one too. “Once upon a time . . .” stories have themes too, except they are more one-dimensional. For example,...
What is a hero? The Webster dictionary describes it as, “a person...who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” But how can mere words on a page create icons that change the course of a culture? Lost in the midst of time, two stories emerge from the medieval era, telling of two great kings who clash in various ways.
A character is a person in a story that plays a particular role. Stories require characters so that it forms conflicts, tensions and resolutions. Characters also carry certain traits to make the story interesting and unique. Each character might have different attributes. Others could have similar and different qualities. Those who read many novels might notice that characters from various books are similar to each other to an extent, but are not completely the same. The old English poem, Beowulf, and Shakespeare's Macbeth contain characters with similar characteristics. Beowulf and Macbeth share similar traits, but do not have the same objective. Comparing and contrasting determine the similarities and differences of things. Comparing and contrasting is an excellent tool to determine what is right and wrong. When choosing the best car to drive, comparing and contrasting helps in the choice of the best vehicle. Macbeth and Beowulf demonstrate that a warrior's motivations matter for both soldiers and the people.
Theme plays a very important part in this short story. Theme is the idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character and action. The great example of theme that is evident throughout the entire short story is the duty to perform certain acts. We can see here that the Irishman Donovan is very big on obeying his duty to carry out orders that have been authorized to him.
The point of view element of fiction stories is that perspective in which a story is told. The point of view is that of the person telling the story and the method in which the reader knows what is happening ("The Elements of Fiction").
Theme can be defined as the subject or topic of something. In relation to songs this would be the subject the author is concerned with in that particular song. By far, it is safe to say that the most popular theme in music is love. Whether it is finding love, the lack of love, lost love, or any other sub-topic of love, you will find countless songs dedicated to love. Interesting enough, the theme of love can be found in ...
For an abundance of authors, the driving force that aids them in creation of a novel is the theme or number of themes implemented throughout the novel. Often times the author doesn’t consciously identify the theme they’re trying to present. Usually a theme is a concept, principle or belief that is significant to an author. Not only does the theme create the backbone of the story, but it also guides the author by controlling the events that happen in a story, what emotions are dispersed, what are the actions of characters, and what emotions are presented within each environment to engage the readers in many