qui on literary terms (nov 3)

Question 1

plot

Answer 1

• what happens in the story (events and thoughts which make up the story’s basic structure)
• usually composed of an introduction, rising action, a climax, falling action and an ending that ties the story together

Question 2

conflict (in plot)

Answer 2

• struggle between two or more opposing forces
• may be internal (person vs. self) or external (person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society, or person vs. fate)

Question 3

setting

Answer 3

location of a story or novel in terms of place, time, social environment, and physical environment

Question 4

place (in setting)

Answer 4

the geographical location of the story - a country or a city, a large city or a small
village, indoors or outdoors, or both

Question 5

time (in setting)

Answer 5

the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the hour of the day in which the events of the story occur

Question 6

social environment (in setting)

Answer 6

location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class)

Question 7

physical environment (in setting)

Answer 7

• details of the location in which the story takes place
• often indicate the emotional state of the characters or the relationship
  between characters.

Question 8

characters

Answer 8

• people (or animals!) in a story
• refers to people’s outward appearance and behaviour and also their inner emotional, intellectual, and
  moral qualities.
• most stories have a main character (the protagonist or hero/heroine), whose personality traits move the plot forward and contribute to conflict
• Many stories also have at least one minor character, who is not the focus of the story but who still
  plays an important role
• Sometimes characters provide contrasts with one another.

Question 9

point of view

Answer 9

• the perspective from which a story is told
• author creates a narrator
  to tell the story
• through the narrator’s perspective (through the narrator’s eyes and
  mind) that readers learn what is happening in a story
• do not make the mistake of thinking that the narrator of a story is the autho
• the point of view
  and the narrator are tools created and used by the author in order to tell a story in a certain way
• the narrator of a story does not necessarily express the author’s opinions.

Question 9

imagery

Answer 9

• collection of images in a work of fiction
• mental pictures created by the author’s words
• writers use concrete images to go beyond physical description in order to express feelings and states of mind
• most images are created through words that appeal to the reader’s five senses

Question 9

symbolism

Answer 9

• symbol: something that represents something else. - image of an event or a
  physical object (a thing, person, or place) that is used to represent something nonphysical such as an idea, a value, or an emotion.
• used to suggest
  meaning, sometimes more than one

Question 9

tone

Answer 9

• the author’s attitude or position toward the action, characters, narrator, subject, and even readers of the story
• to determine the tone of a story, the reader
  must :
  examine the language the author uses

decide what effect the author’s choice
of words has

Question 10

irony

Answer 10

• the unexpected difference or lack of agreement between appearance and
  truth or between expectation and reality
• apparent when an author uses language to create a deliberate contrast between:
  appearance (what seems to be true)
  and truth (what is true)

expectation (what was hoped for) and reality (what
actually happens)

• often readers know or understand something that a character in a
  story does not.

Question 11

theme

Answer 11

• a truth that a story reveals
• rarely directly stated by the author.
• reader must discover the theme by questioning and examining the meaning
  from details in the story.
• deal with general areas of human experience,