Unit 1 Fiction Flashcards
(25 cards)
genre
A type of writing/book, fiction, nonfiction,short story’s, sci-fi,drama, mystery, action, and romance
Fiction
Made up and follows a plot
Prose
Normal writing
Short stories
Focus on few characters
One conflict
One theme
Novel
Many characters
Many conflicts
Many themes
Point of view
Perspective from which story. Is told
1st persons p.o.v.
“I” “me”
Name is talking about him/her self
2nd persons p.o.v
“you”
Author talking to the reader
-advertising
-directions
3rd person p.o.v.
They,he,she
Narrator is telling about a character
Omniscient-3rd person p.o.v.
All-knowing
Limited 3rd person p.o.v.
Limited knowledge
Protagonist
Main character
Struggling with the main conflict
Antagonist
Antagonizes the protagonist
Setting
Place
Time
Social context
Mood
Atmosphere
Emotional sense
Theme
Universal truth explored throughout the story
Five elements of fiction
- plot
- point of view
- characters
- setting
- theme
Idiom
An expression that can’t be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole .
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written of as if it were another
Simile
Uses like or as to make a comparison like a metaphor , it can be broken into a tenor and vehicle
Analogy
A comparison of two things thAt are alike in some way but otherwise quite different ,similes are expressed analogies ;metaphors are implied analogies
Dramatic irony
When the reader knows something the characters don’t
Verbal irony
Sarcasm
*irony
The difference between,appearance and reality
