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Analyzing Narrative Elements: Plot, Conflict, Setting, Characterization, and Theme

This guide explores critical questions for analyzing narratives, focusing on plot structure, conflict dynamics, setting relevance, character development, and thematic expressions. Examine the author's choices regarding plot chronology and conflict nature, and their relationships to characters and themes. Delve into how setting reinforces plot and how characterization reveals deeper meanings. Furthermore, discuss narrative point of view and its impact on reader perception. Finally, explore literary devices and motifs that enhance the narrative's message, enabling effective analysis and note-taking for university studies.

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Analyzing Narrative Elements: Plot, Conflict, Setting, Characterization, and Theme

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  1. Questions for analysis of narrative (and practice note taking skills for university)

  2. Plot / Conflict • Consider the following: • What choices has the author made about plot? For example, consider whether it is chronological, has the author used flashbacks or a “psychological” sense of time, etc.) • What is the inciting incident in the text? • What is the nature of the conflict? • What is the relationship of the conflict to theme? • How do the conflicts affect the characters?

  3. Setting • Consider the following: • How does the setting reinforce the plot? • Is there a correlation between setting and theme?

  4. characterization • To think about: • How is character revealed? • What does character reveal? • What role does the character play in communicating/supporting plot, conflict, theme, message?

  5. Theme / essential question • How is the theme revealed/expressed? • How does plot embody theme? • What connections exist between character renderings and theme? • How do language, rhetorical, literary strategies support/reinforce/render theme? • What is the TRUTH in this text (from a particular point of view)?

  6. Narrative pov • Consider the following: • What is the narrative point of view? • How does who is telling the story affect how the reader perceives it? • What social, cultural, economic values and worldviews are expressed by the author? • To what extent is the above explicit? Implicit?

  7. Literary devices • Consider the following: • What are the consistencies and anomalies in word choice and usage? • Are particular ‘pictures’/images/comparisons creating a motif in the work? • Do some turns in the story seem predictable? Are there hints? • What is the ‘tropic’ design of the story? Which genre does it fit into? • Are archetypes, stereotypes, allusions used? How? • Are there interesting twists in the story? Do the characters ‘get what they deserve’?

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