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