1. The Elements in children story
1. Characters
2.Plot
3. Setting
4. Point of view
5. Style and tone
6. Literary Rhythm
7. Themes

2. Characters
Types of Characters
•People Animals Creators

3. Elements of character
• Protagonist (Good guy)
• Antagonist(Bad guy)
• Foil Character
• Main characters
• Minor Characters
• Flat characters
• Round Characters
• Anthropomorphic
Characters are developed by
• Actions
• Speech
• Appearance
• Other character's comments
• Author's comments
• Unity of character and action

4. A writer can tell you about the
character
Directly: (long ago in faraway kingdom ,there lived a girl her name is
Cinderella .she was kind, smart and beautiful)
Indirectly: what does the character say and what does she like?

5. Snow White is sweet kind and lovely girl
she helps and likes seven dwarves
She almost dies
Her mother is cruel to her
• CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER:
SNOW WHITE IS:
A-round character
B-main character
C-flat character
Think about your favorite
character, movie or series
• Who is this character name?
• What does he, she likes ?
• What kind of personality this
character has?

6. Rising Action
climax
Falling action
Pattern of action
Exposition Resolution
Sensationalism:
Cliffhanger
Foreshadowing
Suspense
Plot
• The plot is the events or series that
take place in the story
• The plots tells what happen in the
story
• Every story needs a plot
• It has different parts
“The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother,
building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows
their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep
fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the
classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?“
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024660/plotsummary

7. Form conflicts
Protagonist vs. Antagonist
Person-against-self
Person-against-person
Person-against-society
Person-against-nature

8. FUN TIME
You have to read story that you like and
identified PATTERN ACTION ,then write it
down
WHAT IS
Raising action……….
Climax……………
Falling action………
Exposition……..
Resolution………

9. setting
• The time and place of the story
• Integral setting very important in the story
• Backdrop setting less important in the story
• It can describe
• Time of day, year or history
• Also can describe scenery ,weather location or area

10. Use the five senses to description the setting
• Sound
• Feel
• Sight
• Taste
• smell

11. Example
“It’s Christmas Eve, and Suzy Goose and her friends are admiring their beautifully decorated tree. It’s perfect except
for one thing: a star for the top. But Suzy sees just the right one, high in the sky, and no one can stop her from trying
every possible way to get it! Bold, expressive illustrations follow the charmingly single-minded goose in a new
adventure, a tale of seasonal magic found in surprising places”
http://trevorcairney.blogspot.com/2012/12/stories-of-christmas-24-great-books-for.html

12. Point of view
• The sound that is telling the story
• The types of point of view :
• First-person (First person ” I “) for example ‘’one day I went to the farm and I saw
amazing things…
• Omniscient (third person she ,he or they )" they asked in a fox, who
jumped in form the trees “
• Objective or dramatic point of view(There is no explanation to the
reader of what is happening or what the characters think or feel

13. Style and tone
The ways how the author uses words, sentences , phrases and
organization
How the author tell or say something upon the story
Sentence structure
• Imagery
• Figurative language
• Figure of speech
• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Understatement
• Allusion
• Symbol
Devices of sound
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Rhythm

14. Rhythm
• It create repeated pattern of sounds or movements in the story
• It makes musical type in the story
• The occurrence of the same sound at the end of two or more words
• examples
hop-pop
Sing-song
Drooping-pooping
best-rest
“One day we were playing outside in our yard
When my brother got mad and he pushed me so hard
That I pushed him right back - with all of my might -
And quick as a wink we were having a fight!”
http://www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml

15. Examples of rhythm books

16. Activity for Rhythm
Choose anything in this picture and makemusical sounds by
two words have the same pattern
Cat
Boy
Fat
Mouse
Pen
Apple
Tree
For example
The boy has a hat cute like a cat

17. Theme
• The main idea or underlying meaning
in the story
• The message that may the author wants
to telling to us
• It might about life or human nature
• It not stated directly but It must be
inferred
• It Tells us what did we learn from the
story
Types of theme
• Implied theme( must be inferred by
all the elements of the story ,what
the message did you learn)
• Stated theme(directly presented
and easily defined )

18. You can recognize the theme in the story by
• Story tittles
• Key words ,phrases, statements in the story about the main idea
Finding themes in Cinderella story?
• What is the topic and main idea?
• How do characters in this story give you lesson or something important
in the life?

19. References
• www.writing-world.com/poetry/rhyme.shtml
• www.homeofbob.com/literature/genre/fiction/ficElmnts.html