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Creative Nonfiction: With Ma'am Mary Joy Manggao
Creative Nonfiction: With Ma'am Mary Joy Manggao
Nonfiction
with Ma'am Mary Joy Manggao
Literary
Elements
At the end of the lesson, you are
expected to:
OBJECTIVE 2
OBJECTIVE 1
character,
setting,
plot,
point-of view,
conflict, and
theme.
A character is
CHARACTER a figure in a
literary work.
Characters
can be major
or minor.
Characters are classified into:
Examples:
Shakespeare’s Queen
Gertrude, who seems to
Flat, when they are be a caring mother of
Hamlet but inwardly she
defined by a single is a weak-willed lady
idea of quality and Harper Lee’s Miss
does not change too Maudie, who acts as a
much from the start of voice of reason for kids
the narrative to its end and supports and explains
Atticus’ motivations and
actions
Characters are classified into:
Examples:
Round, when
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, for
being complex, enigmatic,
they possess
mysterious, knowledgeable,
philosophical, intelligent,
the complexity
and thoughtful
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
of real people Gatsby, who is a man of
great mystery
Characters can
also be:
PROTAGONIST
The main character with whom
the reader is meant to identify,
also the person is not necessarily
good by any conventional moral
standard, but he/she is the
person in whose plight the
reader is most invested. (e,g.,
Rizal’s Crisostomo Ibarra)
TRAGIC HERO / TRAGIC FIGURE TRAGIC FLAW
T he tra g ic h e ro o r tr ag ic
figu re is a p ro ta g o n is t w h o The tragic flaw is the
comes to a bad end as a single characteristic
result of his own behavior, (usually negative) or
us u a lly ca u s e d by a s p e c ific personality disorder that
p e rs o na lity d is ord e r or causes the downfall of
character flaw. the protagonist.