The Story Arc
The height of a story's tension. The top of the mountain. An event to which the story's plot builds.
What is the climax?
The primary font used in MLA format.
What is Times New Roman?
A word for writing that's about made-up or imaginary things.
Fiction.
Narrative writing can be either fiction or non-fiction. (True/False)
What is true?
Writing characterized by its style, expression of emotion, and imagined awareness of the world. It is rhythmic and often uses figurative language. Sometimes it rhymes, it often goes against convention, and it is all writing that is not characterized as prose.
What is poetry?
The actions of a story that take place just after the height of tension but before the resolution.
What is falling action?
The preferred font size in MLA format.
What is 12 pt. font?
A word for writing that deals with real-life people and events.
What is non-fiction?
Narrative writing tries to persuade the reader to do something. (True/False)
What is false? (It's argumentative or persuasive writing that does that.)
This is the type of snake that appeared in "The Dinner Party."
What is a cobra?
The actions of a story that lead the reader onward and upward through conflict and tension toward a waiting goal or event.
What is rising action?
The keyboard key used to produce a conventional indentation in MLA format.
What is the "tab" key?
A type of writing that refers to an author writing about their own life experiences.
What is an autobiography? (or a memoir?)
Narrative writing has a theme, or an underlying message, written into it. (True/False)
What is true? (Narrative writing always has a basic theme or topic, and usually has a more complex message folded into the story.)
The primary subject of a piece of writing or the author's message that is conveyed indirectly through the writing.
What is the theme?
The initial description that reveals a story's setting and its cast of characters.
What is the exposition?
The format used for an article or an essay's title in MLA format.
What is centered with no other special formatting?
The phrase "based on a true story" indicates this with regard to a story:
Non-fiction.
Fiction.
A true story with elements of fiction.
A fictional story with elements of truth.
What is a true story with elements of fiction?
(Parts are made-up, imagined, or not true-to-life...it is not strictly non-fiction, nor is it meant to indicate a piece of pure fiction or something that's mostly fiction but based on real life, like historical fiction.)
Almost all narrative writing is not 100% real or 100% fiction. (True/False)
What is true? (Even careful memoirs often have invented dialogue that mimics real speech that can only be remembered inexactly, and 'pure' fiction is still based on an author's life experiences and understanding.)
This is the game associated with the Persian phrase "shāh māt." The phrase has been used so often over so many years that it sounds like it's an English phrase now.
What is chess? (I will also accept the phrase itself, as that may come up first: checkmate.)
A place wedged in-between the falling action and the resolution. It is the final unraveling, tying up loose ends. It is a word from French.
What is denouement?
The words used to form the acronym "MLA."
What is Modern Language Association?
A phrase used to describe the words that precede quoted conversation in a story.
What is the dialogue tag?
It is fair to call narrative writing "story writing." (True/False)
What is true? (Absolutely fair. Whether it's real or fictional, narrative writing tells a story.)
What is confessional?