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• To analyze: to dissect (to break down) a
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Technical Elements:
Set dress and Property
Costume and Make-up
Cinematography
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Characters and
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Characterization
Group 1:
Who are involved in the story?
Who are the major/ minor Characters?
How do you distinguish the major from the
minor characters?
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Narrative Elements:
Characters and characterization
Setting
Plot
Point of View
Style
Theme
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Full Name:
Sex:
Age:
Education:
Address:
Social and Economic Status:
Occupation:
Marital Status:
Physical Qualities:
Mental Qualities:
Social Qualities:
Moral Qualities
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Setting
Plot
Group 2:
• Setting of Place:
• City/State?:
• How can you determine where the story took
place?
Group 3:
• Plot Structure:
• Traditional
– Exposition Æ Complication --. Climax Æ
Resolution
• Setting of Time:
• Year?
• How can you determine when the story took
place?
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• Causality:
• Plausibility:
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Subject Matter and Theme
Group 4:
Group 5:
• Subject Matter:
• (What is the story about?)
• Participant:
– Narrator as Major Character
– Narrator as Minor Character
• Theme:
• Non Participant:
– What meaning can you derive from the story?
– (What is the probable message intended by
the author to be delivered to the reader?
– Omniscient
– Selected omniscient
– Objective
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Style
Group 6:
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• Sentence Construction:
– Describe the particular characteristics of the
sentence construction used in the story?
– What is the dominant construction?
Grammatical Structure:
Describe the major grammatical structure
used in the story:
• Narration: long
• Dialogue: short
– Narration: Standard
– Dialogue: Non-standard
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• Diction:
• Describe the characteristics of the diction
used in the story.
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Figurative Language:
– What figurative languages do you find in the
story?
– What is the dominant figurative language
used in the story?
– Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Irony,
Paradox, Hyperbole, etc.
– Give examples
– Special Expression:
– Special term:
– Dialect;
– Accent:
– borrowing
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Imagery and Symbolism:
• How is the imagery?
– Describe the images used in the story
• How is the symbolism?
– Describe the symbols used in the story
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