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Fiction
study for test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Plot | It is how what happens is revealed, the way which a story's evens are arranged |
| Protagonist | a story's principle charachter |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces that emerges as the action develops |
| antagonist | someone or something presented in opposition to the protagonist |
| exposition | sets the story in motion, writer presents the basic information readers need to understand the events that follow; intro to major charactor and maybe major events |
| Round (Character) | well developed, closely involved in and responsive to the action |
| Flat (Character) | barely developed or stereotypical |
| Setting | where the fiction is established, place, history, physical context. |
| First person | I or sometimes we; to tell the story |
| Third person | he,she,they; point of view of a narrator who is not a charactor |
| Tone | the attitude of the narrator or author of a work toward the subject matter, characters, or audience. |
| Symbol | is a person, object, action, place, or event that, in addition to its literal meaning, suggests a more complex meaning or range of meaning |
| Theme | work of literature is its central or dominant idea |
| who was the author of A&P? | John Updike, 1961 |
| who was the author of everyday Use? | Alice Walker, 1973 |
| who was the author of Cathedral? | Raymond Carver, 1983 |
| who was the author of Greasy Lake? | T. Coraghessan Boyle, 1985 |
| who was the author of the yellow Wallpaper? | Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892 |
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