Setting
Characters
Plot
Detection
Crime in fiction
100

What person does the protagonist typically remind of?

Is it the writer?

100

Which model do all crime fictions typically follow?

Is it the home-out-home model?

200

How has the main character's childhood often been?

What is a troubled childhood?

200

What is the push effect?

Is it when the writers speed things up?

300

What is a main character often?

Is he/she a loner?

300

What is the pull effect?

Is it when the writer slows things down?

300

What does deduction mean?

Does deduction mean eliminating the impossible choices so you're only left with the truth?

400

What setting is used to make a story feel believable?

What is realism?

400

how do writers investigate what evil is?

Is it by making a killer the main character?

400

What are the stages of traditional detective fiction?

Is it stage 1 - a murder, stage 2 - an investigation and stage 3 - an outcome (often the criminal's arrest or death)?

400

What do the writers typically focus mostly on when writing crime fiction?

What is psychology?

500

What are sensory details?

Are sensory details smells or routines that make a place feel real?

500

What can a main character often do?

Can they out smart the killer?

500

What does red herring mean?

is it when something is used to divert the readers' attention away from the truth in crime fiction?

500

What is deduction according to Holmes?

Is it to observe and conclude something from the observations?

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