Fiction Keywords Flashcards
What is the setting of a story?
Setting is the time and place in which the story takes place.
What is the plot of a story?
Plot is the action and events in the story and how one leads on to the other.
What do you call the main male character in a novel or short story?
Hero
What do you call the main female character in a novel or short story?
Heroine
What are the 5 stages in the shape or structure of a plot?
Exposition/Context - hook & introduction to character/s and setting
Rising Action - Tension builds due to a complication or conflict
Climax - the most dramatic moment and a turning point
Falling Action - tension eases as the problem starts to become resolved
Resolution - the ending and how the conflict is resolved
How do you learn about a character in a novel or short story?
the way s/he looks
the character’s background
what s/he does - actions, behaviour, choices
what s/he says (dialogue)
what other characters say about him/her
how other characters behave towards him/her
sometimes the character’s name
What is a 1st person narrator?
A character who tells the story using the word “I.”
The narrator may or may not be a character in the story.
The name of a novel or short story is the ________.
title
What does fiction mean?
Fiction means ‘made-up’, ‘not true’ or ‘imagined’.
In English, fictional texts include novels and short stories.
What is an author?
An author is a writer.
What is the theme of a novel or short story?
A theme is a big idea or issue the writer wants the reader to think about. It is the main message of the text.. Texts can have more than one theme.
Examples of themes are relationships, war, growing up, loneliness.
What is a flashback?
A flashback is when the
What is a cliff hanger?
A cliffhanger is when a chapter, section or ending of the story finishes with a dramatic moment that leaves the reader in suspense wondering what will happen next.
What kinds of hooks do writers include at the beginning of stories to make a reader want to read on?
an interesting/ unusual/ mysterious character
a detailed description of an appealing/intriguing setting
starting in the middle of the action
creating a sense of mystery or suspense
