Self-Study Flashcards
According to structure
Imaginative narration
Fiction
According to structure
real life narration
Non-fiction
Acc. Form
written within the common flow of language
Prose
Acc.Form
expressed in verse, measure, rhythm
Poetry
Genres of Lit. (FPED)
Fiction
Poetry
Essay
Drama
GL
imaginative creation
Fiction
GL
patterned form of written expression
Poetry
GL
usually from an author’s personal point of view
essay
GL
composition that presents story told entirely in a DIALOGUE
Drama
human actions and experiences
Object reality
human apprehension and comprehension
Subjective Reality
Type of Fiction
moral.animals
Fables
Type of Fiction
symbolic
Myth
Type of Fiction
from the past
Legends
Type of Fiction
didactic
Parables
Type of Fiction
oral stories passed down
folk tales
Type of Fiction
less words
Short story
Type of Fiction
long
Novel
Elements of Fiction (SChaP CoPT)
settings
characters
plot
conflict
point of view
theme
Parts of a plot
Exposition
Crisis
Climax
Falling Action
Denouement
Ending
time and place the story occurs
Setting
representation in the story
characters
sequence of event
plot
sets the scene by introducing the charaters and settings
exposition
established curiousity, uncertainty, and tension
crisis
the peak of the story
climax
finishing of things right after the climax
falling action
strands of the plot are drawn together
denouement
end of the story
ending
General types of plot (LCID)
Linear
Circular
In medias res
Deux En Machina/Deus ex Machina
natural sequence of the event
Linear
begin and end the same
Circular
begin in the middle
in medias res
unsolvable suddenly solvable
deux en machina/deus ex machina
protagonist vs. antagonist
person vs. person
conflict against tradition, law, etc.
person vs. society
inner moral conflict
personal vs. personal
conflict against some force of nature
person vs. nature
conflict against inexplicable phenomena
person vs. supernatural
determines the narrator of the story
point of view
one of the story’s characters serves as the narrator
first person POV
relatively rare. makes the reader a character in the story
second person POV
someone outside the story. uses he/she/they
third person POV
narrator reveals nothing
Objective third person