Analyzing Fiction Flashcards

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What is plot?

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The arrangement of events in a narrative. Almost always, a conflict is central to a plot, and traditionally a plot develops in accordance with the following model: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.

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What is a narrative?

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A story

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What is the exposition of a story?

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At the beginning of a narrative, we learn important background information about the characters, the setting, and the situation, and we may begin to understand the nature of the conflict.

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What is the rising action of a story?

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After and inciting incident or significant even, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character starts to experience complications.

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What is the climax of the story?

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The point at which the story’s suspense, emotions and tensions peak is the climax. This critical turning point marks when everything changes. In a comedy, the protagonist’s situation often improves. In a tragedy, it usually worsens. Usually, the narrative builds to this point, and any events following the climax happens fairly quickly.

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What is a comedy?

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A dramatic work that in contrast to a tragedy has al ight, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinary people, and his written and performed in the vernacular.

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What is suspense?

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A literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting; it is the effect created by artful delays and selective dissemination of information.

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What is a tragedy?

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A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait, referred to as a character flaw.

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What is falling action in a story?

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Opposite the causes behind the rising action the falling action details the effects of what happens at the climax of the narrative, and the conflict comes to a point of resolution.

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What is the denouement in a story?

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It is the “untying of the knot.” It shows how the conflict has reached a resolution. Some stories do not have a resolution.

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in medias res

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some stories start in the middle of the action

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flashback

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a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s beginning

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foreshadowing

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hints at events to come

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Setting

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where and when a story takes place

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