Prose Fiction Flashcards
1
Q
Narrative Form
A
Details of act/event
2
Q
Who?
A
Who are the characters?
3
Q
What?
A
What is the play about?
4
Q
When?
A
When is the play set?
5
Q
Where?
A
Where is the play set?
6
Q
Theme
A
Message/idea of a play
7
Q
Central Concern
A
Most important cause of a problem
8
Q
Setting
A
Time, culture, physical
9
Q
Style
A
Execution of events/tropes
10
Q
Narrative Point of View
A
Who is telling the story/relationship to the story/characters
11
Q
Sympathetic Character
A
Narrative point of view is reliable
12
Q
Reliable Character
A
Embody theme/relationships/conflict
13
Q
Motif
A
A repeated idea
14
Q
Simile
A
Comparison of one thing to another
15
Q
Metaphor
A
Word/phrase applied to something which wouldn’t make sense in normal speech
16
Q
Personification
A
Human characterisation given to something non-human
