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Title: Elements of a Story


1
Elements of a Story
  • Inha TESOL

2
Goal
  • To be able to describe the elements of a
  • story using natural flowing English.

3
  • What are the elements of a story?
  • (1) Genre
  • (2) Setting and Mood
  • (3) Character
  • (4) Plot

4
Setting
  • Setting tells us the time and place.
  • It answers the questions when and where.

5
Language Focus Setting
  • There are several formulaic ways to talk
  • about the setting of a story
  • The story begins (time and/or place).
  • The story starts off (time and/or place).
  • The story takes place (time and/or place).
  • The story is set (time and/or place).
  • The story happens (time and/or place).

6
The story begins
The story begins in a classroom in a small
elementary school in the country on the last day
of school
7
The story starts off
  • The story starts off in the country in the middle
    of winter

8
The story takes place
  • The story takes place on an alien world in the
    future.

9
The story is set
  • The story is set during the American Civil War.

10
The story happens
  • The story happens in a an old house on the top of
    a hill on a stormy Halloween night

11
Character
  • Characters are the people (or personified
    animals, robots, aliens, ghosts etc.) that
    experience the events in the story.
  • They provide the action and dialogue within the
    story.

12
Heroes
  • The main character of a story is called the
    protagonist.
  • Some people refer to the protagonist as the hero
    of the story, though protagonists are often not
    heroes or even heroic. The protagonist can even
    be evil.
  • Many people refer to the main character of a
    story as simply the main character.

13
Villains
  • The character that comes into conflict with the
    protagonist is called the antagonist.
  • Some people refer to antagonists as the villain,
    though not all antagonists are villains or even
    bad.
  • In some stories there is no antagonist to
    confront the protagonist.

14
Language Focus Character
  • There are several standard ways to introduce
  • a character
  • The main character is . . . named (name)
  • Often character and plot can be introduced
  • at the same time.
  • The main character is . . . who (situation)
  • The story is about . . . who . . . (situation)

15
The main character is . . .named
  • The protagonist is a firefighter named John.
  • The hero is a young boy named Harry Potter.
  • The main character is a woman named Tiffany.

16
The main character is . . . who
  • The protagonists are three orphan children who
    are forced to live with her evil Uncle.
  • The hero is a detective who solves unusual crimes
    in 19th century London.
  • The main character is a stingy old man who is
    visited by three ghosts on Christmas eve.

17
Its about . . .
  • Its about a young boy who sees dead people.
  • Its about a whaling captain who hunts a great
    white whale
  • Its about a young boy who sails down the
    Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave.
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