Narrative Story Elements - page 3&4

Question 1

Any reason or force that makes a character behave in a certain way.

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

-In fiction, when a character suddenly experiences a deep realization about himself or herself; a moment of truth

Answer 2

Epiphany

Question 3

A struggle between opposing forces

Answer 3

Conflict

Question 4

Types of Conflict

Answer 4

External / Internal

Question 5

Involves a struggle between a character and an outside force.

Answer 5

External Conflict

Question 6

Four Types of External Conflict

Answer 6

1. Character vs. Character: -pits one character against another.
2. Character vs. a Force of Nature (Setting)
3. Man vs. Supernatural –pits one character against gods, demons, super heroes, etc.
4. Man vs. Society –pits one character against laws or beliefs of a group, could involve poverty, politics, social norms, expectations or values

Question 7

Character vs. Self

-takes pace in a character’s mind. (feelings, conscience, or fears)

Answer 7

Internal Conflict

Question 8

-A central message, concern, or insight into life expressed through a literary work

Answer 8

Theme

Question 9

-Use clues from the story & your own knowledge to guess about things that the author doesn’t say directly.

Answer 9

Inference

Question 10

Inform, persuade, entertain, inspire

Answer 10

Author’s Purpose

Question 11

the way the author uses words, phrases, and sentences.
Some words to describe style: Descriptive, Thoroughly-developed, Academic, Formal, Informal, Business-like, Personal, Conversational,

Answer 11

Author’s Style

Question 12

• the author’s attitude toward the subject.
• must be inferred through the use of descriptive words
• word choices will reveal his perspective/opinion (feeling positive or negative) about the subject

Answer 12

Tone

Question 13

Bitter, Serious, Witty, Playful, Tender, Sympathetic, Haunting
Mysterious, Suspenseful

Answer 13

Some words to describe tone

Question 14

• the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for readers
• can be described as exciting, somber, terrifying, cheerful, carefree

Answer 14

Mood

Question 15

• descriptions of setting (abandoned house, storm night)
• Imagery can effect emotion and establish mood
• descriptions of character’s speech or feelings about the setting and conflict
• Character’s reaction often reflects mood.

Answer 15

Identifying Mood

Question 16

Cheerful, Relieved, Gloomy, Bleak, Uncertain, Bittersweet, Relaxed, Lazy, Hopeless, Tense

Answer 16

Some words to describe mood

Question 17

-Explaining a complex idea using easier ideas by putting it in your own words.

Answer 17

Paraphrase

Question 18

-techniques that writers use to make a story more interesting and to enhance the experience for the reader

Answer 18

Devices

Question 19

• An author’s use of hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in the story.
• Not all foreshadowing is obvious. Frequently, future events are merely hinted at through dialogue, description, or the attitudes and reactions of the characters.

Answer 19

Foreshadowing

Question 20

• It builds suspense by raising questions that encourage the reader to go on and find out more about the event that is being foreshadowed.
• Makes a narrative more believable by partially preparing the reader for events which are to follow.

Answer 20

Foreshadowing

-Two Purposes

Question 21

• That quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events, makes the reader ask “What will happen next?”
• Suspense is greatest when it focuses attention on a sympathetic character.

Answer 21

Suspense

Question 22

-an ending to a section, chapter, or book that leaves the reader in suspense

Answer 22

Cliffhanger

Question 23

A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened at an earlier time.

Answer 23

Flashback

Question 24

-paints pictures in your mind by appealing to any of the senses –taste, touch, sight, sound, smell

Answer 24

Imagery

Question 25

gives human traits to animas, nonhuman beings, or inanimate objects

Answer 25

Personification

Question 26

-a comparison of two different things using the words “like” or “as”

Answer 26

Simile

Question 27

-an analogy or implied comparison of two different things

Answer 27

Metaphor

Question 28

-a purposeful exaggeration or overstatement usually to create emphasis or make something sound funny.

Answer 28

Hyperbole

Question 29

-the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is, -usually has an ironic effect

Answer 29

Understatement

Question 30

-a reference in a work of literature to a well-known character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, or from history.

Answer 30

allusion

Question 31

-a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object (literal) representing something abstract (figurative).

Answer 31

Symbol

Question 32

to find symbol, ask ___

Answer 32

-what object appears repeatedly?
-How do characters react to object?
What big ideas/ universal theme does the story and how does object relate