the character telling the story

Katniss is the narrator of The Hunger Games

TYPES OF

POINT OF VIEW

1st person: "I"

3rd person: "he/she"

2nd person (rare): "you"

Catcher in the Rye is told in the 1st person

the main character

of a story

Marjane is the protagonist of Persepolis.

a character or force in conflict with the protagonist

The Capital is an antagonist in The Hunger Games

the time,

historical era,

and place

where the action of the story occurs

Catcher in the Rye is mostly set over a three day

period in New York City during the 1950s

the idea(s) or message(s) that the author is trying to convey to the reader

one theme of The Hunger Games is retaining your humanity during times of inhumanity or oppression

a struggle between

opposing forces

In Speak, Melinda is conflicted about whether or not she should tell people what happened to her over the summer. This is an internal conflict. 

In The Hunger Games, Katniss is in conflict with the game-makers and her opponants in the arena.These are external conflicts.

*character vs. character (external)

*character vs. himself/herself (internal)

*character vs. society (external)

*character vs. nature (external)

*physical description

*what the character does (actions)

*what the character says (external dialogue)

*what the character thinks

*how other characters react to character

 *character's relationships with other characters

*description of setting

*dialogue

*imagery

*figurative language

an object (or sometimes place or person) that represents something else - that holds greater meaning beyond the literal

examples: Holden's hat, Katniss's mockingjay pin, Melinda's turkey sculpture

A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike

things are compared,

often in a phrase

introduced by like or as.

"She's like the wind."

The comparison of one thing to another without the

use of like or as:

“When she runs, she is the wind."

a passing, unexplained reference to another work of literature or art, a character, historical figure, place, etc.

"Hold it now and watch the hoodwink
As I make you stop, think
You'll think you're looking at Aquaman"

(One Week - Bare Naked Ladies)

endowing inanimate objects or abstractions with

human characteristics

"the clouds wept"

a statement that initially appears to be contradictory, yet holds truth.

"I can't live, with or without you." (U2)

The use of words to convey

a meaning that is the opposite of

its literal meaning.

 The contrast between what appears to be true

and what is actually true.

...occurs when the reader or the audience knows more than the characters in the work of literature.

(eg "Titanic" film)

providing the reader with a clue or hint to what is going to happen later in the

action of the story

In the black and white sequence at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy interacts with characters played by actors who will later play different roles in Oz

an event or scene that occurs before the main action of the story

The bulk of the action in A Catcher in the Rye is

told in flashback, as Holden recounts his story

to the audience (a therapist?)

a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot.

The climax of Speak occurs when Andy tries to attack Melinda in her secret closet hideaway.

The repetition of the

same sounds or of the

same kinds of sounds

at the beginning of words

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

The repetition of a

vowel sound within a line,

as in the phrase

"tilting at windmills."

the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns), especially at the ends of words, as in

"blank" and "think" or "strong" and "string"

The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with

the objects or actions

to which they refer.

addressing someone not present, or a personified object or idea, as in 

“O Death, where is thy sting?"

obvious and intentional exaggeration.

"You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you" (Holden Caulfield)