Literary Analysis

• It refers to a body of written works such as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays that reflects the background of certain cultures

  Literature
• is a product of writers imagination

  Fiction
• is based on facts

  Non-fiction
• is a critical examination and interpretation of a literary work.

  Literary Analysis
• it refers to the time and place in which the action of the action of the story

  Setting
• It is defined as an interrelated sequence of events in a story where each event affects the other, thus showing the cause and effect relationship

  plot
• This is the very beginning of a story

  exposition
• is the part when tension starts to build

  Rising action
• part of the story where the characters finally have to face and solve the major conflict

  Climax
• this is everything that happens after the climax but before the resolution

  falling action
• this is the conclusion or ending of a story

  resolution
• refers to a person, an object, an animal or imaginary creature personified in the story

  character
• it is the main character who does heroic acts in the story

  protagonist
• also the main character who opposes the protagonist in some way

  Antagonist
• it refers to the problem that the main characters have to face

  conflict
• its is the conflict of the story i which the struggle is between the protagonist and antagonist

  Man vs. man
• occurs when the character has a conflict with the government, cultural or societal tradition

  Man vs. society
• a conflict that takes place within the character himself

  Man vs. self
• conflict that happens when the protagonist a struggle against s god, gods, and supernatural forces

  man vs. supernatural
• the narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings

  First person
• when the narrator is removed from the story and tells it from outside perspective

  third person
• refers to the central idea or message

  theme