Lesson 1 Flashcards
What is the atmosphere or feeling of a literary work. The setting can contribute to establishing the mood of a story?
Mood.
What does the word setting mean?
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is the individuals whose thoughts and actions make up a story. The actions of the characters make up the events of a story.
Characters.
What is the centeral, focal figure in a work of fiction?
Characters.
What is a character or force that works against the protagonist, creating obstacles, a story that can have more than one antagonist?
Antagonist.
What are characters that are fully developed with both positive qualities and flaws, more protagonist characters are round. What are they?
Round characters.
What are characters that undergo change over the course change over the course of a story as a result of their experience?
Dynamic characters.
What are characters that do not undergo any change from the story’s inception to its conclusion?
Static characters.
What are characters that are stereotypical and one-dimensional, they are simple with limited personality traits, what are they?
Flat characters.
What are methods used by an author to develop a character?
characterization can be direct in that the author clearly states what the character looks like, say and do, with indirect characterization, the author reveals a character by showing something about him or her.
What is the arrangement or sequence of events within a story?
Plot.
What is an obstacle, struggle or controversy that the protagonist must overcome?
Conflict.
What is a conflict in which the protagonist has a problem with another character?
Character vs. character.
What is a conflict in which the protagonist must struggle against a harsh environment or natural disaster?
Character vs. nature
What is a conflict in which the protagonist is at its odds with an internal problem, such as fear, shyness, or guilt?
Character vs. self.
What is a conflict in which the protagonist struggles with a force that seems beyond the characters control?
Character vs. fate.
What is a second story within the main plot of a story?
Subplot.
What’s in fiction, the plot normally begins with this. Characters are introduced and the background information is provided to better understand the events of the story?
Exposition.
What’s the use of clues early in a story to give hints about the events that will happen later?
Foreshadowing.
What’s a series of events and conflict involving characters that leads to the climax?
Rising action.
What’s the turning point of a story, when the conflict is most intense, either internally or in an action?
Climax.
What’s also referred to as an denouement, it is the action they follows the climax and leads to the resolution. What is it?
Falling action.
What is the conclusion of the sooty when the conflict is finally resolved?
Resolution.
What is an unexpected twitch in the resolution of the story? The story concludes in a way of opposite from what the reader may expect.
Situational irony.
What’s the idea or ideas that weave the character, setting and events together?
Theme.
What is the centeral, focal figure in a work of fiction?
Protagonist.
