Narration
Character
Narrative style
Science fiction
Narration and character
100
An all-knowing character who can read all the characters’ innermost thoughts
What is an omniscient (third person) narrator?
100
A character who plays an important role in the plot
What is a major character?
100
The use of direct speech between characters in a piece of fiction
What is dialogue?
100
An imaginary place or state in which everything is extremely bad or unpleasant
What is dystopia?
100
The main character of a play or piece of prose fiction
What is the protagonist?
200
A third person narrator who tells the story from the point of view of one character
What is a limited omniscient narrator?
200
A character who plays a small role in the plot
What is a minor character
200
A literary device used to supply information about events that occurred earlier than the main story
What is flashback?
200
A subgenre of science-fiction which tries to be realistic
What is hard science-fiction?
200
The social setting a characters grew up and/or lives in
What is social background?
300
A series of events that form the story in a piece of fiction
What is plot?
300
A character with a complex personality, capable of development
What is a round character?
300
The driving force behind the plot
What is conflict?
300
figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using 'like' or 'as', for example “My love is like a red, red rose.”
What is a simile
300
A narrative style where the narrator explains or comments on a character’s personality or thoughts
What is telling?
400
How the character(s) change during a piece of fiction
What is character Development?
400
Characters who represent a single characteristic or idea
What is a flat character?
400
An ambiguous ending without a resolution
What is an open ending?
400
The new technology in a science-fiction story which is central to the plot and the main theme
What is the novum?
400
A narrative style where the characters reveal themselves only through what they do and say
What is showing?
500
Used when a narrative starts in the middle of the action rather than from the very beginning
What is in medias res?
500
The adversary of the protagonist in a play or a novel/short story
What is an antagonist
500
An ending with a clear resolution
What is a closed ending?
500
A story with a moral lesson (the message) about our own reality
What is a parable?
500
The use of an element early in a text that gives a hint about or anticipates a later part of the text
What is foreshadowing
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