Intro Fiction Flashcards
Genre
Type of writing.
Fiction
A fake story.
Prose
Tells a fake story.
Short story
Brief work of fiction.
Novel
A long work of fiction.
Plot
Series of events related to the conflict.
Point of view
Perspective from which story is told.
1st person POV
“I” “me”.
narrator is the character.
2nd person POV
“You”.
Narrator talks to the reader. (instructions)
3rd person POV
“They” “he” “she”.
3rd person limited
Narrator doesn’t know everything.
3rd person omniscient
Narrator knows everything.
Protagonist
Good guy.
Main character.
Antagonist
Against the protagonist.
Part of the conflict.
Setting
Time and place.
Mood created by the place and time.
Mood
Atmosphere or sense of emotion.
Theme
Universal truth explored in the story.
It’s present through out the story
5 Elements of fiction
- Plot
- Point of view
- Characters
- Setting
- Theme
Idiom
An expression that can’t be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written of as if it were another
Simile
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison
Analogy
A comparison of two things that are alike in some ways but otherwise quite different
