Character Types in Literature

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

• The presentation discusses 21st-century literature.
• Different literary forms are explored.

Classroom Management

• The presentation includes a review of classroom management strategies.
• There's a pre-activity, prayer, review and prayer segments.

Literature Forms

• Literature can be oral or written.
• Oral literature is passed down through generations.
• Written literature is in a literary text form.

Characteristics of Literary Text

• Elements of psychological characterization and chronology make a text literary.
• Literary texts tell a story.
• They express feelings, thoughts, ideas, based on real or imaginary experiences.
• They convey meaningful information, crossing boundaries of time, place, culture, and language.

Prose and Poetry

• Prose is continuous writing, uses sentences, and paragraphs and sounds similar to ordinary speech.
• Poetry uses lines and stanzas, sounds "special" or more "artistic" than spoken words, and has an artistic purpose to share personal feelings.

Elements of Poetry

• Elements of poetry include theme, tone, rhyme, meter, and structure.

Themes in Literature

• Themes in literature include judgment, survival, peace and war, love, heroism, good and evil, the circle of life, suffering, deception, coming of age, home, drawing, poverty, betrayal, friendship, doing the right thing, traditions, identity, mortality, and forgiveness.

Tone in Literature

• Tone is an element of poetry that refers to the attitude, ambience and mood of the poem.
• Tone influences the reader's emotional response.

Rhyme

• Rhyme refers to repetition of similar sounds or the exact same sound in poetry.
• It adds musical quality.

Rhyme Scheme

• A rhyme scheme is a pattern of sounds repeating at the end of lines or stanzas.
• It can change throughout a poem, presented in different formats.
• Lines with the same letter rhyme.

Examples of Rhyme Schemes

• Provide examples of rhyme schemes in poems.

Line and Stanza

• A line is a unit of language.
• A stanza is a group of lines within a poem.

Meter

• Meter is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
• Stressed syllables tend to be longer and unstressed, shorter.
• Verses are lines in a metrical pattern.

Types of Meter

• Different types of meter include lambic, trochaic, spondaic, anapestic, and dactylic.

Prose

• Prose applies a natural flow of speech with grammatical structures of complete sentences logically and sequentially in paragraphs.

Fiction vs Nonfiction

• Fiction, is a product of wild imagination and creative thinking, where characters respond to various issues in the main literary work. it includes short stories, novellas, and novels.
• Nonfiction, is writing based on real events and facts. It can include essays, journals, diaries, feature articles, and editorials

Elements of Prose

• Literary elements of a story include character, setting, plot, conflict, and point of view.

Character

• A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.
• Writers use characters for actions and dialogue to move the plot forward.

Types of Characters

• Characters are major or minor.
• Major characters are central to the development and resolution of the story's conflict.
• Protagonist is the main character. An antagonist causes conflict for the protagonist.
• Minor characters play a smaller but significant part in the story, their actions affect the protagonist or antagonist, either negatively or positively.

Character Traits

• Character traits include foil (opposing traits for contrast), static (unchanging over the course of a story), dynamic (changing traits), round (complex traits, good and bad), and stock (stereotypical).

Plot

• Plot is the story's unfolding, development, and progression in time.
• The plot's five main elements are exposition (beginning of the story), rising action (events leading up to the conflict), climax (peak of the story), falling action (story slows down and ties up loose ends), and resolution (ending of the story).

Point of View

• Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told.
• Types of POV include first person, second person, objective third person, and omn-iscient third person.
• The first-person narrator uses "I". The second-person narrator addresses the reader directly. The objective third-person narrator describes the events only. And the omniscient third-person narrator knows every character's thoughts and feelings.

Classifications of Literature

• Prose and poetry are two different kinds of literature.
• Fiction and nonfiction are two different types of literary writing.