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FICTION
Senior High School - Grade 12
LITERARY
ELEMENTS
Senior High School - Grade 12
At the end of the discussion, you are
expected to:
1. Identify the different literary elements
of the different genres and
A. 3
B. 5
C. 7
D. 9
ACTIVITY 1
A. Hyperbole
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Simile
ACTIVITY 1
A. Aftershocks - marriage
B. House – pictorial gallery
C. Pregnant – second child
D. Photo – wedding wall
ACTIVITY 1
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
ACTIVITY 1
A. Her house
B. Gown and tuxedo
C. Their photo
D. Wall of pictures
LITERARY
ELEMENTS
LITERARY ELEMENTS
● Literary Elements are specific means by
which writers or storytellers manipulate
words in specific patterns to unfold their
stories and experiences.
● Characters can be
major or minor.
CHARACTER
Characters are classified into:
Example:
● When Oedipus blinded himself, he showed how
ignorant and shortsighted his hubris has made
him.
CHARACTER
Characters can also be:
Examples:
● Thunderbird Resort, Poro Point, City of San
Fernando 2500 La Union
● Gabas Integrated School, Gabas, Baybay City
6521 Leyte
SETTING
The setting can be:
b. Ambiguous
Examples:
● A large urban city during economic hard times
● Somewhere in the 2nd floor of the grocery store
PLOT
The plot is the sequence of events in a story. It is
made up of:
a. Exposition, the beginning of the story,
characters, setting, and the main conflict are
typically introduced.
b. Rising Action, also called Complication,
where the main character is in crisis and
events leading up to facing the conflict begin to
unfold. The story becomes complicated.
PLOT
The plot is the sequence of events in a story. It is
made up of:
Examples:
● Love and friendship – Shakespeare’s Romeo
Examples:
● Al Swearengin’s Deadwood
If I bleat when I speak it’s because I just got flee
Point-of-view
QUIZ
Antagonist Onomatopoeia Rhyme
Latira Theme Man vs Man
Point-of-view Complication Protagonist
Latira
QUIZ
Antagonist Onomatopoeia Rhyme
Latira Theme Man vs Man
Point-of-view Complication Protagonist
Onomatopoeia
QUIZ
Antagonist Onomatopoeia Rhyme
Latira Theme Man vs Man
Point-of-view Complication Protagonist
Rhyme
QUIZ
Antagonist Onomatopoeia Rhyme
Latira Theme Man vs Man
Point-of-view Complication Protagonist
Antagonist
IMAGERY
● Imagery appeals to the reader’s physical
senses motivating strong and distinct
mental images of what the writer is trying
to show.
IMAGERY
It is classified into:
a. Visual imagery (seeing)
Example:
● “Death lays his icy hands on kings.”
PERSONIFICATION
Examples: John Knowles’ A Separate Peace
Example:
● “She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the
surgeon’s knife.”
OXYMORON
PARADOX
● A paradox is different from an oxymoron
because it is a sentence or a phrase that appears
contradictory, but implies some kind truth, to
add a hidden meaning to a concept in your
writing.
The Protagonist versus the Antagonist
The Protagonist versus the Antagonist
PROTAGONIST ANTAGONIST
Katniss Everdeen President Snow
Harry Potter Lord Voldemort
Batman Joker
Mara Clara
Ibarra Father Salvi
ACTIVITY 1
1. The (antagonist, protagonist) is the
character in whose unfortunate condition
the story revolves.
A. Tragic figure
B. Tragic flaw
C. Tragic hero
D. Tragic weakness
MULTIPLE CHOICE
2. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the setting from the lines
below is _______________.
A. 1940s, Hungary
B. 1940s, station platform at Sighet
C. 1940s, Jews
D. 1940s, station platform at Hungary
MULTIPLE CHOICE
3. Hamlet wants to kill his father’s murderer,
Claudius, but he also looks for proof to justify
his action. This is a __________ conflict.
A. Anthropomorphism C. Metaphor
B. Imagery D. Personification
MULTIPLE CHOICE
6. When the mother said “Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” in
Langston Hughes’ Mother to Son, she used
______________.
A. Allusion
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Symbolism
MULTIPLE CHOICE
7. The underlined phrase in the sentence “I
would take your part in the play tonight at
the drop of a hat!” means ______________.
A. Behaving inappropriately
B. Doing it immediately
C. Something is easy or nice
D. Very eager for something
MULTIPLE CHOICE
8. The sentence “Death lays his icy hands on
kings.” employs ________________.
A. Imagery
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Symbolism
MULTIPLE CHOICE
9. The sentence “She accepted it as the kind
cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.” exemplifies
_______________.
A. Hyperbole
B. Irony
C. Oxymoron
D. Paradox
MULTIPLE CHOICE
10.The sentence “It was a cold stormy night that
would introduce her to eternal darkness,
forever changing the course of her life.”
applies __________.
A. Euphemism
B. Exposition
C. Flashback
D. Foreshadowing
PERFORMANCE
TASK
Write about an experience when you were
at the lowest point of your life. Narrate
how you dealt with it and how you coped
up. Employ necessary literary elements in
your composition. (Character, setting,
plot, theme, simile, metaphor,
personification, dialogue and other
literary techniques) 100 POINTS
RUBRICS
Perfect (100 points) Good (85 points) Poor (70 points)
The composition The composition The composition partly
focused on the focused on the focused on the
specified subject and specified subject and specified subject and
supplied the needed supplied the needed supplied some
information. It also information. It also information. It used
employed necessary employed some minimal literary
literary elements. literary elements. elements. Organization
Organization is logical Organization is quite is incoherent and there
and grammar is incoherent and there are many
flawless. are several ungrammatical parts.
ungrammatical parts.
GUIDELINES:
1. Long bond paper
2. 1 inch in all sides
3. Can be handwritten or printed (With borders)
4. Be CREATIVE!
FORMAT:
Name: Date:
Grade & Section: Teacher: