NOVEL

SMK BONGAWAN
2020
NOVEL

• an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a

certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human
experience, usually through a connected sequence of
events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.
•  The term novel is a truncation of the Italian
word novella (from the plural of Latin novellus, a late
variant of novus, meaning “new”)
- Encylcopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/art/novel)
ELEMENTS IN THE NOVEL

LANGUAGE PLOT
DEVICE CHARACTER

ELEMENTS IN THE
NOVEL

THEME POINT OF
VIEW
SETTING
PLOT

• The novel is propelled through its hundred or

thousand pages by a device known as the story or
plot. 
• Plot is what happens in the story, the series of events.
This happened, then this happened, then this
happened. . .
FREYTAG’S PYRAMID
CHARACTER

• Usually people will only see character as main and

minor character.
• Main character: who has a major purpose or role in
the plot to propel the story according to the intention
of the author
• While minor character is purposely there to support
the main character
There are 12 types of
character:

1. Protagonist 1. Dynamic or changing

2. Antagonist character
3. Deuterogonist 2. Static or unchanging
4. Tertiary characters character

5. Love interest 3. Stock character

6. Confidant 4. Symbolic character

7. Foil character 5. Round character

There are 12 types of
character:

1. Protagonist 1. Dynamic or changing

2. Antagonist character
3. Deuterogonist Characte 2. Static or unchanging Character
types by
r types
4. Tertiary characters by role character quality

5. Love interest 3. Stock character

6. Confidant 4. Symbolic character

7. Foil character 5. Round character

WAITTTT

• There is another one more character. ANTI-HEROES.

• This kind of character usually play the same role as
protagonist.
• Traditionally, a classical hero is a character who always
wins their battles, with sharp intellect, unshakable self-
confidence, and excellent judgment.
• There are 5 types of anti heroes
ANTI-HEROES

1. The Classical Anti-Hero

2. The ‘Disney’ Anti-Hero
3. The Pragmatic Anti-Hero
4. The Unscrupulous Hero
5. The ‘Hero’ in Name Only
(Liz Bureman, https://thewritepractice.com/anti-heroes/ )
SETTING

• Physical setting
- answering question WHERE
• Time setting
- answering question WHEN

The setting of a novel is not always drawn from a real-life

locale. 
POINT OF VIEW

• Point of view is the angle of considering things, which

shows us the opinion or feelings of the individuals
involved in a situation. In literature, point of view is
the mode of narration that an author employs to let
the readers “hear” and “see” what takes place in a
story.
CONT…

• First person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns
“I” or “we.”
“I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace.”
• Second person point of view employs the pronoun “you.”
“Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration.”
• Third person point of view uses pronouns like “he,” “she,” “it,” “they,” or a
name.
“ Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and never lets you
deceive him easily.”
• Function of Point of View
Point of view is an integral tool of description in the
author’s hands to portray personal emotions or
characters’ feelings about an experience or situation.
Writers use a point of view to express effectively what
they want to convey to their readers.
https://literarydevices.net/point-of-view/