Elements Of Fiction

Question 1

Main character

Answer 1

The focus character in a story

Question 2

Minor character

Answer 2

The less important character in a story

Question 3

Dynamic character

Answer 3

A character that changed significantly

Question 4

static character

Answer 4

a character who changes little or not at all

Question 5

Protagonist

Answer 5

The main character in the story who is involved in the conflict

Question 6

Antagonist

Answer 6

The force working against the main character

Question 7

characterization

Answer 7

the ways a writer creates and develops a character

Question 8

direct characterization

Answer 8

when the author directly tells the reader about the personality of the character

Question 9

Indirect characterization

Answer 9

when the author shows things that reveal the personality of the character

Question 10

Methods of characterization

Answer 10

looks, actions, speech, thoughts/feelings, viewed by others

Question 11

Conflict

Answer 11

a struggle between two opposing forces

Question 12

Internal conflict

Answer 12

a struggle within a character (man vs. himself)

Question 13

External conflict

Answer 13

when a character struggles against some outside person or force (man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. fate)

Question 14

Tone

Answer 14

the writers attitude towards the audience and the subject of the piece of literature

Question 15

Plot

Answer 15

The sequence of events that make up a story

Question 16

introduction

Answer 16

Introduces the setting, character, and conflict of a story

Question 17

rising action

Answer 17

The plot gets more complicated; leads up to climax

Question 18

Climax

Answer 18

the point of highest interest or suspense of a story, the turning point of a story

Question 19

Resolution

Answer 19

the loose ends are tired up and the story comes to a close

Question 20

Point of view

Answer 20

the perspective from which the story is told

Question 21

first person point of view

Answer 21

when the narrator is the character in a story

Question 22

third person point of view

Answer 22

When the narrator is not the character in the story

Question 23

Third person omniscient point of view

Answer 23

When the third person narrator tells what any character sees, thinks, or feels

Question 24

third person limited point of view

Answer 24

when the third person narrator tells only what one character sees, thinks, and feels

Question 25

setting

Answer 25

the time and place of the action of the story

Question 26

Theme

Answer 26

the moral, message, or lesson about life that the writer wants the reader to learn

Question 27

mood

Answer 27

The feeling that the writer wants the reader to get from a work of literature

Question 28

character

Answer 28

person, animal, or imaginary creature that takes part in the conflict of the story