What are the literary elements? What are the characteristics of each?

There are four literary elements, generally referring to the world, works, writers and readers mentioned in abrams's Mirror and Lamp.

Features:

As the source of literature, of course, it is the life world. The world mainly refers to the social life or social reality reflected by literary activities. There is imitation theory in history;

The formal factor of literature is the text, because the text has a materialized appearance and a visualized result. Works mainly refer to the difference between the literary world and the real world, highlighting the difference between the literary world and the real world;

The factors of production are writers, because words are created by writers. The author mainly refers to literature, but also the author's performance activities. There are "poems expressing ambition" and romanticism in history;

The formation factor is the reader, because the socialization and realism of writers and texts ultimately depend on the reader, and the works that cannot be widely accepted by readers are only personal abstract works. Readers' reading appreciation activities are to realize the value of works.

The above four elements form an organic whole.