Elements Of Fiction

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

the series of events/conflicts

Question 2

Character

Answer 2

a person in a short story, novel, or
play

Question 3

Setting

Answer 3

Time, place, general conditions of a work, and atmosphere

Question 4

Point of View

Answer 4

The perspective of the story

Question 5

Theme

Answer 5

The main idea

Question 6

Exposition

Answer 6

The start of the story, the situation before the action starts

Question 7

Rising action

Answer 7

The series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax

Question 8

Climax

Answer 8

The turning point, the most intense moment either mentally or in action

Question 9

Falling action

Answer 9

All of the action which follows the climax

Question 10

Chronological Order

Answer 10

first establishes the setting and conflict, then follows the rising action through to a climax (the peak of the action and turning point), and concludes with a denouement (a wrapping up of loose ends).

Question 11

Flashbacks

Answer 11

interruptions that writers do to insert past events, in order to provide background or context to the current events of a story. By using flashbacks, writers allow their readers to gain insight into a characterʼs motivations, and provide a background to a current conflict. Dream sequences and memories are methods used to present flashbacks.

Question 12

In Media Res (in the middle of things)

Answer 12

when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition.

Question 13

Conflict

Answer 13

•The struggle between two opposing forces.
•The problem in the story

Question 14

External conflict

Answer 14

•involves an outside source
•person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society

Question 15

Internal conflict

Answer 15

•goes on within the character
• person vs. self

Question 16

Protagonist

Answer 16

•The main character
•The hero
•The character that the reader becomes emotionally involved with

Question 17

Antagonist

Answer 17

•The character who goes up against the protagonist in the man versus man conflict.
•The villian

Question 18

Dynamic Character

Answer 18

•A character who changes as a result of a conflict.

Question 19

Static Character

Answer 19

A character that stays the same

Question 20

Characterization

Answer 20

Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.Characterization is revealed through direct characterization and indirect characterization.

Question 21

Direct Characterization

Answer 21

Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
Example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”

Question 22

Indirect Characterization

Answer 22

Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character.
There are five different methods of indirect characterization: Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others towards the character, Actions, Looks

Question 23

1st person narration

Answer 23

The narrator is a character in the story, referred to as I.

Question 24

3rd person limited narration

Answer 24

The narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character, referring to that character as “he” or “she”

Question 25

3rd person omniscient narration

Answer 25

the narrator knows everything about the storyʼs events and reveals the thoughts of all the characters.

Question 26

Dramatic Irony

Answer 26

The readers know something that a character does not know

Question 27

Situational irony

Answer 27

When what happens is inconsistent with what we would logically or normally occur

Question 28

Verbal

Answer 28

When a a speaker or write says or writes something that is the opposite of what they mean