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Elements of Fiction
English Semester Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5 types of characters | round, stock, flat, dynamic and static |
| Static character | stays the same from begging of story to end |
| Dynamic (developing) Character | undergoes change in character, personality, or outlook |
| round character | complex characters (many sided); 3-D qualities of real people |
| stock character | stereotyped character that recurres in many stories (flat) |
| flat character | have only one or two predominate traits that are summed up in one to two sentences |
| 2 types of fiction | commercial and literary |
| Literary fiction | author goes deep into real world and makes connections |
| commercail fiction | solely to entertain |
| conflict | clash of ideas, actions, desires, or wills |
| protagonist | central character in a conflict |
| antagonist | any force against the protagonist |
| plot | sequence of incidens or events through which an author constructs a story (not to be confused with action itself, but the way the author arranges the action toward a specific end |
| suspense | quality of a story that makes reader ask "What's going to happen next?" |
| artistic unity | essential to good plot; there must be nothing in the story that is irrelevant, that does not contribute to the meaning |
| theme | controlling idea or its central insight; unifying generalization about life stated or implied by the story; central purpose:what view of life it supports or what insight into life it reveals |
| 6 parts of a theme | 1)statement (subject and predicate) 2) generalization about life 3)not a generalization larger than terms of story 4) central and unifying concept 5)no one way of stating theme 6) no familiar sayings |
| point of view | who tells the story? |
| omniscent pov | story told in 3rd person by narrator who knows all |
| 3rd person limited pov | 3rd person from character in story |
| 1st person pov | author talks through a character who says story in first person |
| objective (dramatic) pov | narrator dissapears through a camera video taping room; audience draw inferences |
| literary symbol | something that means more than what is suggested on the surface |
| fantasy | one that transcends the boundaries of reality |
| allegory | has a second meaning beneath the surface |
| verbal irony | sarcasm; figure of speech in which the speaker says the opposite of what he or she intends to say |
| dramatic irony | contrast b/w what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| situationaly irony | discrepancy b/w appearnace and reality or b/w expectation and fulfillment, or b/w what is and what would seem appropriate |
| sentimentality | stories that try to elicit easy or unearned emotional responses |
| 4 things that invoke sentimentality | editorialize, poeticize, dramatize |
| how should you evaluate a story? | see if story achieves central purpose and if central purpose is significant |
| the different types of conflict | man vs. man; person against environment; man vs. himself/herself |
| direct presentation | tells us straight out, by expostition or analysis, what the characters are like, or they have another character in the story describe them |
| indirect presentation | the author shows us the characters through their actions; we determine what they are like by what they say or do |
| irony | employ humor; range of meanings that all involve some sort of discrepancy or incongruity |
| poeticize | immoderately heightened and distended language to accomplish their effects; lots of detail |
| editorialize | comment on story and instruct us how to feel |
| dramatize | make a big deal of something of something that isn't a big deal |
| existentialism | the choices you make in life; you have the control over your own destiny |
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