Fiction Flashcards
Stories or narratives about imaginary persons or events
Fiction
3 Three major subgenres of fiction based on length
Short story, novella, novel
4 Oral forms of short fiction
Fable, Legend, Parable, Tale
Fiction are also categorized by
The plot, and Character
4 subgenres?
Gothic fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, romance
Struggle between opposing forces
Conflicts
Imaginary personage who acts, appears, or referred in the story
Character
Main character in a literal work
Protagonist
A character or a nonhuman force oppose to the protagonist in conflicts
Antagonist
Time or place in a fiction, poetry, or drama
Setting
distinctive manner of expression
Style
An arrangement of an action
Plot
The main 5 parts of the plot
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion
Someone who recounts, or tells a story
Narrator
When the narrator is a character, it is called…
Internal narrator
When the narrator is not a character, it is called…
External narraor
If a work encourages us to view the narrator’s actions as suspicious, the narrator is called…
Unreliable
If the narrator says ‘I’ or ‘we,’ the narrator is called…
A first-person narrator
An uncommon technic and it says ‘you’ in the story. The narrator is called…
A second-person narrator
If the narrator says ‘he, she, they,’ the narrator is called…
A third-person narrator
Any sensory detail or evocation in a work
image/imagery
Intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage
figures of speech
Person, place, thing, or event that figuratively represents or stands for something else.
Symbol
Attitude a literally work takes towards its subject
tone
broadly and commonly, topic explored in a literary work
theme
section or subdivision of a play or narrative that presents continuous action in one specific setting
scenes
