Narration and POV
When the narrator uses the pronoun "I"
What is a first-person narrator?
Physical, social, cultural and historical characteristics of time and place in a story.
What is the setting?
A conclusion where a story's final outcome is left unresolved or open to interpretation.
What is an open ending?
The marks, such as full stop, comma, and question marks, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.
What is punctuation?
The story's series of events. It's like the story's skeleton.
What is plot?
When the third-person narrator is like a fly on the wall and doesn't have access to the thoughts and feelings of characters.
What is an objective narrator?
A fictional time or place, for example in the future or in a magical world.
What is an imaginary setting?
The exciting point when the tension that has been building since the beginning breaks, and a change occurs.
What is the climax?
Words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.
What is slang?
Ideas that are central to a story, which can often be summed up in a single abstract noun or phrase (for instance "parenthood", "man versus nature", "loneliness" etc.)
What is a theme?
When the third-person narrator has access to the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of only one character.
What is limited POV?
A characterization that involves the internal qualities like thoughts, feelings, and personality of a character - not looks, clothes etc.
What is inner characterization?
A scene/account of an event set in a time earlier than the main story.
What is a flashback?
Metaphors, symbols, personification etc.
What is imagery?
The insight or moral lesson the author wants the reader to see. It is what the story is "about" on a deeper level, offering a perspective on life, a social commentary, or a universal truth.
What is a message?
When a first-person narrator lies to the reader, either intentionally or unintentionally.
What is an unreliable narrator?
A one-dimensional, simple and uncomplicated, character that typically does not change throughout the story.
What is a flat character?
A Latin expression that refers to a story starting without any introduction.
What is in medias res?
A variety of a language that is associated with a particular region in a country, differing in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
What is a dialect?
The name given to a work, chosen by the author, that serves to identify it, provide context, and awaken the reader's interest.
What is a title?
A third-person "all-knowing" voice in a story that has access to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters, past and future events.
What is an omniscient narrator?
Characters that support the main story, but are less developed and appear less frequently than other characters.
What are minor characters?
A literary device where an author gives hints or clues about events that will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
It reveals the author's feelings about a subject or characters to the reader. It can be ironic, hopeful, sad...
What is tone?
Giving human qualities, emotions, or actions to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.
What is personification?