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intro to fition term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fable | a bfief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral. The characters are traditionally animals whose personality traits symbolize human traits |
| Parable | a brief usually allegorical narrative that teaches a moral. In parables, unlike fables (where the moral is explicitly stated within the narrative), the moral themes are implicit and can often be interpreted in several ways. |
| Tale | a short narrative w/o a complex plot. ales are an ancient form of narrative found in folklore, & traditional tales often contain supernatural elements. A tale differs from a short story by its tendency toward lesser-developed characters & linear plotting. |
| Tall tale | a humerous short narrative that provides a widly exaggerated version of events. Originally an oral form, the tall tale usually assumes that its audience knows the narrator is distorting the events. the form is often associated with the American frontier. |
| Fairy tale, folktale | a traditional form of short narrative folklore originally transmitted orally, which features supernatural characters. They often feature a hero/heroine who strives to achieve some desirable fate. (marrying into royalty) |
| short story | a prose narrative too brief to be published in a separate volume- as novellas and novels frequently are. Usually a focused narrative that presents one or two characters involved in a single compelling action. |
| initiation story | (aka coming of age story). A narrative in which the naim character usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an important experience (rite of passage) that prepares him or her for adulthood. |
| protagonist | the main or central character in a narrative. Usually initiates the main action of the story often in conflict w/ the antagonist. |
| antagonist | the most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative. It may be anothehr character, society itself, a force of nature, or even in-modern literature-conflicting impulses within the protagonist |
| exposition | the opening portion of a narrative. The scene is set, the protagonist is introduced and the author discloses any other background info necessary for the reader to understand the events that follow. |
| conflict | the central struggle between tow or more forces in a story. Generally occurs when some person or thing prevents the protagonist from achieving his/her goal. It is the basic material out of which most plots are made. |
| complications | the intro of a significant development in the central conflictbetween characters. may be external or internal. |
| crisis | the point in a narrative when the crucial action, decision, or realization must take place. |
| climax | the moment of greatist intensity in a story, which almost inevitably occurs toward the end of the work. Often takes the form of a decisive confrontation between the antagonist and protagonist. |
| conclusion | in plotting the logical end or outcome of an unified plot, shortly following the climax. Also called resolution or denouement. |
| forshadowing | an indication of events to come in a narrative. the author may introduce specific words, images, or actions in order to suggest significant later events. |
| flashback | a scene relived in a character's memory. may be related by the narrator in a summary or experienced by the character themselves. allow the author to include significant events that occured before the opening of the story. |
| epiphany | a moment of profound insight or revelation by which a characters life is greatly altered. |
| in medias res | "in the midst of things" refers to the narrative device of begining a story midway in the events it depicts before explaining the context or preceding actions. |
| total omniscience | point of view in which the narrator knows everything about all of the characters and events in the story. Can move freely from one character to another. Written in 3rd person. |
| limited or selective omniscience | point of view in which narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters. Sees through the eyes of one major/minor character. |
| impartial omniscience | point of view employed when an omniscient narrator who presents the thoughs and actions of the characters, doesnt judge or comment on them. |
| editorial omniscience | point of view employed when an omniscient narrator goes beyond reporting the thoughts of the characters to make a critical judgment or commentary making explicit the narrator's own thoughts or attitudes |
| objective point of view | point of view in which the 3rd person narrator merely reports dialogue and action w/ little or no interpretation or access to the characters' minds. |
| omniscient or all knowing narrator | a narrator who has the ability to move freely through teh consciousness of any character. has complete knowledge of all of the external events in a story. |
| participant or 1st person narrator | a narrator who is a participant in the action. refers to themself as "I" and may be a major/minor character in the story. |
| observer | a 1st person narrator who is relatively detached from or plays only a minor role int he events described. |
| non-participant or 3rd person narrator | a narrator who doesnt appear in the story but is usually capable of revealing the thoughts and motives of one or more characters. |
| innocent or naive narrator | a character who fails to understand all the implications of the story he/she tells. A child or childlike adult is frequently used by an author to generate ironysympathy, or pity by creating a gap between what the narrator preceives & what the reader knows |
| unreliable narrator | a narrator who intentionally or unintentionally relates events in a subjective or distorted maner. the author usually provides some indication early on in such stories that the narrator is nto the be completely trusted. |
| interior monologue | an extended presentation of a character's thoughts in a narrative. usually written in the present tense and printed w/o quotation marks. it reads as if the character were speacking aloud to him/herself, for the reader to overhear. |
| stream of consciousness | a type of modern narration that uses various literary devices especially interior monologue, in an attempt to duplicate the subjective and associative nature of human consciousness. |
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