Week 7 Flashcards
Products purely out of the writer’s imagination
Fiction
Fiction that can be read in one sitting.
Short story
Shorter version of novel.
Recognized for its intermediate length.
Novella
Long prose narrative that deals with human experience through a sequence of events.
Has a series of episodes and is known to be very complex.
Novel
Place and time of where the action takes place.
Highlights various conditions and milieus which are not always perceived to be physical.
Setting
Person or any entity presented in a narrative
The one involved in the circumstances and actions of the story.
Characters
Principal or lead character; commonly referred as the “hero” or “heroine”
Protagonist
The main role is to oppose or challenge the main character.
Antagonist
A character that does not change through the course of the story
Static/flat character
Known as complex and multi-dimensional
Character that people can relate to the most
Round character
Second important character in a story
Deuteragonist
Does not exhibit the stereotypical qualities inherent to a hero
Known mostly as graceless, dishonest and stupid.
Antihero
Refers to the flow and sequence of the story.
Plot
According to Aristotle, all stories follows a certain sequence. (It has a beginning, middle and end)
Created by Gustav Freytag from Aristotle’s theory.
freytag’s pyramid
it introduces the time, place, setting and the main character.
Exposition
