Plot setting pdf English

Plot,
Setting and Characterization

MELC 3_Quarter 1
Expectations
Learning Target: Performance Task # 3:
Appraise the unity of plot, Appraise the unity of plot,
setting, and characterization setting, and characterization
in a material viewed through a material viewed
through a movie review.
Characters refer to persons,
creatures or things serving as
actors or movers in a story.
Their interactions and decisions

move the story and affect its
outcome.
Characters A character may be categorized

depending on his role,
alignment, and dynamic.
1. Protagonist – central
person in the story and
referred to as story’s
main character
2. Antagonist – the
character that
represents the
Types of opposition to the main
Characters character
3. Dynamic – a type of
character that changes
over time as a result of
resolving a central conflict
or facing a major crisis
4. Static – a character who
does not change over
time, his/her personality
Types of does not transform or
Characters evolve
Characterization
➢ Characterization is a writer’s tool, or
“literary device” that occurs any time the
author uses details to teach us about a
person. This is used over the course of a
story in order to tell the tale.
➢ It refers to the mental, emotional, and
social qualities to distinguish one entity
from another
Types of
Characterization
•Direct or explicit – direct
approach to build a
character by using another
character, narrator, or
protagonist himself
Direct characterization
Examples:
“Looking up, there he was – Mr. Ramsay – advancing towards them,
swinging, careless, oblivious, remote. A bit of a hypocrite? she
repeated. Oh no – the most sincere of men, the truest (here he was),
the best; but, looking down, she thought, he is absorbed in himself,
he is tyrannical, he is unjust…”
Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse (1927), p. 52.
Types of
Characterization
• Indirect or implicit – a subtle
way of introducing a character.
It describes the character
through their thoughts, actions,
speech, and dialogue
Methods of Indirect Characterization
✓ What does the character say?
✓ What is revealed through character’s
private thoughts?
✓ What is revealed through the character’s
effect on other people? How do other
characters feel in reaction to the
character?
✓ What does the character do? How does
he/she behave?
✓ What does the character look like?
Indirect characterization
Examples:
“Joad took a quick drink from the flask. He dragged the
last smoke from his raveling cigarette and then, with
callused thumb and forefinger, crushed out the glowing
end. He rubbed the butt to a pulp and put it out the
window, letting the breeze suck it from his fingers.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), p. 9.
Plot
Plot is the arrangement of events in
a story. It has 5 parts.
a. Exposition – is the beginning of
the story
b. Rising Action – increased tension
as result of the central conflict
Plot
Types of Conflict
• Man vs himself
• Man vs man
• Man vs nature
• Man vs society
Plot
c. Climax – turning point of the story
d. Falling action- part when the main
conflict is resolved
e. Resolution – ending of the story
Setting
• Setting refers to the
time and place when
and where the story
takes place.
Aspects of Setting
•Place – geographical
location
•Time - historical period, time
of the day, month, year etc.
•Weather conditions – is it
rainy? Sunny? stormy?
Aspects of Setting
• Social conditions – What is the
daily life of the character is
like? Cultures, mannerisms,
customs
• Atmosphere – what feeling is
created at the beginning of the
story?
Theme
• The theme is the main idea that
weaves the story altogether.
• It is the message the author or the
creator wants to tell us.
• As such, it is usually a statement about
human nature.
• It can also serve as a lesson for the
readers.
Why are these
elements
important?
❑Narrative elements are building blocks that
must be balanced by the writer to provide a
storyline that the audience will follow.
❑Authors who carefully design these elements
create worthy stories.
❑By becoming aware of how these elements
were used by the author, the audience will find
out the very reason why the story is created.
Elements Importance
Setting The setting provides the
background information of the story.
The specific time or place where the
story is happening affects how the
characters interact. It also
contributes certain emotions not just
to the characters but also to the
audience.
Character Characters are the driving force of

the story; without them, there will be
no movement in the plot as they are
the main actors of the story.
Elements Importance
Plot The plot, with its conflicts and
twists, hooks the audience up to the
end of the story; the role of the plot
is to provide a similar human
experience that the audience can
relate to.
Theme The theme serves as the bridge

between the author and his readers
because it will give them the idea
why the story was created in the
first place – and that is to tell the
world a certain message.

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Plot,

Setting and Characterization

Their interactions and decisions

Characters A character may be categorized

Character Characters are the driving force of

Theme The theme serves as the bridge

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