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
Unfolds the problems and struggles that would be encountered by the main character
Rising action
it is a part where the problem or the conflict is in the highest peak of interest.
Climax
the part where the conflict is solved leading to its downward movement.
falling action
contains the last statement of the story. It is the French word for “the end”.
Denouement
Means “in the middle of things” or “in the middle of an action”
en medias res
Technique which utilizes the inclusion of episodes or prior events to the base time of the plot
Flashback
Also known as flash-forward
A glimpse into what may transpire in the future
Prolepsis
Provides clues or hints as to events that may happen soon in the flow of the story.
Foreshadowing
A story within the story
Frame story
Refers to the vantage point as to how the story unfolds.
Point of view
Marked by the use of “I”
Mainly narrator is also part of the story.
Delivery of the story is more personal
First person
Narrator is not part of the story.
The story is based on what the narrator sees and observes.
Limited
Third person
The writer-narrator sees all.
He can see to the minds of the character and even report everyone’s innermost thoughts.
Omniscient
The opposition of forces that may set forth the problems, issues and challenges of various forms
conflict
Objects used to represent ideas aside from literal meanings
Symbols
The significant truth about life which a story attempts to communicate to its readers.
Pertains to ideas, realizations, reflection, or simply the lesson.
Theme
Home of the ashfall by ___
John Jack G. Wigley
where is the hometown of the author?
Angeles City, Pampanga
Home of the ashfall is an example of?
anecdote
What is the home of the ashfall all about?
Mt. Pinatubo eruption
When did the Mt. Pinatubo erupted?
June 15, 1991
Sinigang by ___
Marie Aubrey Villaceran
