Elements of Fiction/Fiction Notes

Question 0

What are two types of Fiction?

Answer 0

Novel and Short Story

Question 1

What is fiction?

Answer 1

A story made up or imagined in the mind of the writer.

Question 2

What is a novel?

Answer 2

A long work of fiction, with a complex plot, many characters, and more than one theme.

Question 3

what is a short story?

Answer 3

A short work of fiction, approx. 1-25 pages, usually can be read quickly.

Question 4

What is a Genre?

Answer 4

Categories into which literary works are grouped; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama.

Question 5

What is Characterization?

Answer 5

The way people who take part in the action of the story are created by the author.

Question 6

What are the two types of Characterization?

Answer 6

Direct and Indirect

Question 7

What is Direct characterization?

Answer 7

The author describes exactly what a character is like.

Question 8

What is Indirect Characterization?

Answer 8

The author implies what a character is like by what he says, does, or what others say about him.

Question 9

What are characters?

Answer 9

People who take part in the action of the story.

Question 10

what is a protagonist?

Answer 10

The main character who remains the same.

Question 11

What is an antagonist?

Answer 11

The opposing force usually the “bad guy.”

Question 12

What is a static or flat character?

Answer 12

A character who remains the same.

Question 13

What is a dynamic or round character?

Answer 13

A character who changes or grows.

Question 14

What is the setting?

Answer 14

Its the time and place where action occurs.

Question 15

What is the theme of the story?

Answer 15

Its the message or lesson the main character learns and the author wishes to share with the reader.

Question 16

What is the conflict?

Answer 16

Its the major problem that must be resolved, drives the plot.

internal: man vs self
external: man vs man, man vs nature

Question 17

What is the plot?

Answer 17

Its a chain of related events that make up action.

Question 18

What is the exposition?

Answer 18

It provides back-round info. at the beginning; introduces characters, setting and hints of conflict.

Question 19

What is the rising action?

Answer 19

It continues the action.

Question 20

What is the climax?

Answer 20

Its the turning point in action, most intense part, peak.

Question 21

What is the falling action?

Answer 21

It describes results of actions, follows climax, begins to tie up loose ends.

Question 22

What is the resolution?

Answer 22

Tells how conflict is settled, how the story ends.

Question 23

What is the narrator?

Answer 23

Its the person telling the story.

Question 24

Whats the point of view?

Answer 24

Its through whose eyes the story is being told.

1st person, 3rd person, limited, omniscient.

Question 25

What is Irony?

Answer 25

It is the opposite of what is expected, twist ending.

Question 26

What is a symbol?

Answer 26

It is a concrete object that represents something intangible.

Question 27

What is foreshadowing?

Answer 27

It is clues or hints that hint or predict what happens later.

Question 28

What is a flash back?

Answer 28

Its when the story starts in the present and flashes back to events that already happened.