Literary Elements

Plot (story line, dramatic structure, action) : numbers 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 17
-Conflict can be internal or external
-Storyline includes Rising action, falling action, resolution, climax
-Flashback, Foreshadow
-Exposition

Setting (time, place, year, etc.) : numbers 2, 8, 9, 10

Characters (protagonist, angtagonist) : numbers 2, 3, 4, 6, 20, 22, 25
-Foil = minor character
-Round or flat character
-We get to know characters through their physical description, through dialogue and/or through the action of the story

Theme (meaning) : numbers 1, 2, 16, 19, 21, 26

Narration (point of view) : number 7
-The narrator can be present in the story (1st person) or omniscient.
-There can be multiple narrators, like when there are different point of views. Example : The movie Crash)

Style (diction, syntax) : numbers 6, 15, 18, 21, 23, 24
-Style includes Figurative language like metaphors and similes
-Satire, irony, the tone of a story and the mood are all part of the narrator's style.

4 speaking criteria :
1.Delivery - Loudness, eye contact, speed, pauses, natural, fluency, pronuciation
2.Content - Main point, development, examples, good intro (questions, facts, statistics). Structure (quotations, etc.)
3. Organisation - sequencers, transitional words.
4. Language - vocabulary, grammar, sentence variety.