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genre
Is one of the types or categories into which literary works are divided
Major genres of literature include:
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Tells an invented or imaginary story
Novel
- Long work of fiction
Short story
- brief works of fiction
- a short story is carefully crafted to develop a plot, characters, setting, mood, and theme, all within relatively few pages
Novella
A short novel or a long short story
Plot
The series of events to a central conflict, or struggle
A plot typically introduces…
A conflict, develops it, and eventually resolves it
A plot contains the following elements
Exposition
Rising actuon
Climax
Falling action
Resolution
Exposition
- Introduction
- sets the tone or mood
- characters and setting
- Provides background info
Rising action
- the conflict is developed and intensified
climax
- crisis
- high point of interest in a literary work
- turning point of the action
- the point in which the rising action ends and the falling action begins
falling action
- consists of all the events that follow the climax
- tensions ease as the conflict begins to be resolved
resolution
- “denouement”
- it is the point at which the central conflict is ended or resolved
- loose ends are tired
characters
- is an individual that takes part in the action of a literary work
- a character is usually a person but also may be a personified plant, animal, object, or imaginary creature
main character
- Is also know as the protagonist
- he or she is the most important character in the work and is in conflict with the antagonist
- plays a significant role in a literary work
minor characters
play lesser roles in a literary work but help support the plot
flat character
shows only one quality, or character trait
round character
shows the multiple character traits of a real person.
round character
shows the multiple character traits of a real person
static character
does not change during the course of the action
dynamic character
changes throughout the story
protagonist
the main character in a literary work
antagonist
character or force in opposition or in conflict with a main character or protagonist