PHILLIT MODULE 4 Flashcards
is difficult to classify
fiction
usually written in paragraphs, not verses.
fiction
seldom performed in front of an audience:
fiction
created using imagined events, characters, and even places, which means that it
cannot possibly have happened in real life.
fiction
in other words fiction is a ____
lie
100 – 1,000 words
flash fiction
1,000 – 10,000 words
Short story
10,000 – 20,000 words
Novellete
20,000 – 30,000 words
Novella
30,000 words and beyond.
Novel
Another word for fiction is
story
In literary terms, a story is an
imagined narrative.
a rhetorical mode used as a pattern of paragraph development
narration
six basic elements of fiction
plot, characters, point of view, voice and dialogue, setting, theme
differentiated plot and story
e.m foster
who said that plot examines the causality of
each event, usually connected by the phrase “and so”.
E.M FOSTER
provides us with a more in-depth understanding of how and why
each event follows the other,
PLOT
traditional Greek drama, which is usually divided into three part
protasis, epitasis, catastrophe
German dramatist in the nineteenth century, used Aristotle as jumping off point and
restructured the dramatic plot, which he said can be divided into five parts.
Gustav Freytag
plot is divided into five parts:
exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
resolution
this is also known as the introduction. The setting, point of view, and the main character’s situation at thebeginning of
the story areintroduced here.
exposition
this is where the inciting incident occurs: the moment that starts the story moving along, and the main
character encounters more and more difficulties the further along the story he or she progresses
rising action
this is the pinnacle of the story, where all the events in the rising action arrive at this point. This is usually where
your character needs to make a choice that would have long-lasting consequences
Climax
this is the “untangling of knots” in a story. This is when the consequences of the choices made by the
characters are finally dealt with.
falling action