plot and setting

Question 1

what is plot?

Answer 1

several basic events that form a whole narrative.

Question 2

what is narrative?

Answer 2

a story.

Question 3

what are conflicts?

Answer 3

tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot.

Question 4

what is exposition?

Answer 4

the beginning of the narrative, about background, setting, situation etc.

Question 5

what is rising action?

Answer 5

after an inciting incident or significant event, the conflict becomes more clear.

Question 6

what is climax?

Answer 6

the point in a story when the conflict reaches its highest intensity.

Question 7

what is suspense?

Answer 7

a literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting.

Question 8

what is comedy?

Answer 8

the protagonist’s situation often improves.

Question 9

what is a tragedy?

Answer 9

story usually worsens. very tragic.

Question 10

what is falling action?

Answer 10

opposite the causes behind the rising action. Conflict comes to a point of resolution.

Question 11

what is denouement?

Answer 11

“untying the knot” in French, how the conflict has reached its resolution. usually the shortest.

Question 12

what in medias res?

Answer 12

in Latin meaning “in the middle of the action” or just prior to an event midway through the overall story.

Question 13

what are flashbacks?

Answer 13

during which a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s beginning.

Question 14

what is foreshadowing?

Answer 14

hinting events to come.

Question 15

what is a protagonist?

Answer 15

the main character in a work often a hero.

Question 16

what is a antagonist?

Answer 16

a character in the story who opposes the protagonist, evil or a villain.

Question 17

what is a coming-of-age story? or bildungsroman?

Answer 17

a novel that explores the maturing of the protagonist.

Question 18

what is an epiphany?

Answer 18

an “aha” moment a moment when the character is struck with a life changing moment.

Question 19

what are round characters?

Answer 19

a character who exhibits only one or two parts and who lacks character development.

Question 20

what are flat characters?

Answer 20

a character embodying only one or two parts and who lacks character development.

Question 21

what is foil?

Answer 21

a contrasting character who allows the protagonist to stand out more distinctively.

Question 22

what are stock characters?

Answer 22

a type of flat character based on stereotype.

Question 23

what are direct characters?

Answer 23

a narrator tells the reader who a character is by describing the background etc.

Question 24

what are indirect characters?

Answer 24

an author shows rather then tells us what a character is like through what the character says or does etc.

Question 25

what is a symbol?

Answer 25

has literal meaning in the story.

Question 26

what is allegory?

Answer 26

a literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely.

Question 27

what are archetypes?

Answer 27

a cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized.

Question 28

what is point of view?

Answer 28

describes a narrators position in relation to the story that narrator is telling.

Question 29

what is second-person pov?

Answer 29

where the narrator uses “you” as if they are talking to you.

Question 30

what is first person pov?

Answer 30

when the narrator uses “I” or “me”. talking about themselves.

Question 31

what is third-person pov?

Answer 31

uses pronouns such as “he” or “she”. talking about someone else.

Question 32

what is limited omniscient?

Answer 32

they use third person pov but only know one persons thoughts and feelings.

Question 33

what is a resolution?

Answer 33

the ending of a story, where the main conflict has been resolved.

Question 34

what is setting?

Answer 34

when and where the story takes place.