Narrative Texts

Question 0

What are the five components of plot?

Answer 0

Conflict, rising action, climax, denouement/falling action, and resolution

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

Sequence of events that take place in a story.

Question 2

Theme

Answer 2

Underlying message of story. It’s closely related to main idea, but usually mor global in scope.

Question 3

What four elements contribute to theme?

Answer 3

Characterization, plot, setting, and point of view.

Question 4

Character

Answer 4

Characterization is made of up three elements: appearance, personality and behavior.

Question 5

Setting

Answer 5

Time and place. Author uses details of surroundings to contribute to the understanding of the scene.

Question 6

Point of view

Answer 6

Refers to narrator of story. Most common ones are: first-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient

Question 7

Plot components:

Conflict

Answer 7

The inciting incident

Question 8

Plot components:

Rising action

Answer 8

The events created by the action

Question 9

Plot components:

Climax

Answer 9

Highest point or turning point of the story

Question 10

Plot components:

Denouement or Falling action

Answer 10

Where conflict becomes unraveled

Question 11

Plot components:

Resolution

Answer 11

How conflict is resolved

Question 12

What is a good way to familiarize students with story structure?

Answer 12

Familiarize them with a variety of fairy tales, fables, myths, folk tales, and legends as these stories tend to be linear in nature

Question 13

Types of stories:

Fable

Answer 13

Very short story that tells us a moral or lesson. Very often had an object or animal as central character. Ex. Little engine that could, Aesop’s fables

Question 14

Types of stories:

Folklore

Answer 14

Fictional stories that generally stem from oral traditions. Folklore contains beliefs and customs of a country or region. Ex. Santa clause, pied piper

Question 15

Types of stories:

Fairy tale

Answer 15

Type if folklore. May use elements if royalty, magic, enchantment and the supernatural. Ex. Little red riding hood, sleeping beauty

Question 16

Types of stories:

Myth

Answer 16

Regarded as true stories within a culture and often use the supernatural (gods) to interpret natural events. Ex. Cupid, pandora’a box

Question 17

Types of stories:

Legend

Answer 17

Stories based on real life heroes and their mighty deeds. Usually humans, not gods, are main characters in legends. Ex. Robin Hood, Paul Bunyan

Question 18

What story element is most difficult for new readers to identify?

Answer 18

Theme. This is because the theme is often inferred or implied, and readers must analyze all elements if the story.

Question 19

Diction

Answer 19

The way a character speaks in a story that adds believability to the character

Question 20

Types of stories:

Allegory

Answer 20

Stories or poems in which an author uses animals or objects to represent moral, political, or religious meaning. Ex. Animal farm

Question 21

What are the three basic literary genres?

Answer 21

Poetry, prose, and drama

Question 22

Poetry

Answer 22

Literature written in metrical verse.

Question 23

What are four literary elements associated with poetry?

Answer 23

Speaker: voice of poem
Sound: such as alliteration
Rhyme: repetition at regular intervals of similar or identical sounds
Rhythm: pattern created by arranging stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 24

DramA

Answer 24

Works intended for performance by actors on stage, such as plays.

Question 25

Prose

Answer 25

Fiction or non-fiction works that mirror the language of everyday speech such as short story or novel.

Question 26

Dialogue

Answer 26

What a character says.

Question 27

Symbolism

Answer 27

Author’s use of motif to represent story’s subtext

Question 28

Why do authors use careful word choice and description?

Answer 28

To set the tone or mood of the story.

Question 29

Interpretive writing

Answer 29

Writing used to help readers understand an event topic or event. Ex. Museum placards, political essays

Question 30

Roman a clef

Answer 30

French for novel with a key. It’s a novel about real life overlaid with a fiction facade. The “key” May be provided separately by the author or contained within the text either overtly or implicitly.