Fiction & CNF We've Read
Orwell says, “I did not want to shoot the elephant” (3). Nonetheless, he does shoot the elephant. Define what motivates him to take this action.
What is the crowd of Burmans were watching him and expecting him to shoot the elephant. He decided it was easier to shoot the elephant from afar rather than go nearby and test the elephant’s behavior to see whether it would remain docile until its mahout returned.
According to the reading on how to write "Fiction,” the difference between story and plot.
What is “A story is a series of events recorded in chronological order. A plot is a series of events deliberately arranged so as to reveal their dramatic, thematic, and emotional significance” (Burroway 261).
The two poetic devices that Michael Kleber-Diggs uses in his poem "America Is Loving Me to Death"
What are an acrostic and a golden shovel
The difference between Diegetic and Nondiegetic sound
What is diegetic music or sound “…occurs realistically within the action…Nondiegetic sound is stylized, not arising from the action but as an accompaniment or background to it” (Burroway 335-6).
The element of plot that should be included at the end of a story’s exposition.
What is the inciting incident, which establishes the groundwork for the main conflict of your story.
The place the protagonist discovered the letter from his mother in "Paper Menagerie"
What is folded into his origami tiger Laohu
According to the reading on how to write “Creative Non-Fiction," the definition for authorial intrusion.
What is the author’s analysis and/or exposition that interprets the scenes/events in their life (Burroway 233).
The fate of Eukiah in Lanford Wilson’s piece of Drama.
What is Butch breaks Eukiah’s neck. The audience expects Eukiah’s corpse to be staged in a barn fire started to college insurance from dead racehorses.
The poetic terms used instead of "paragraph" and "sentence."
What are "stanza" and "line."
Define the climax of a story.
What is the pinnacle. According to the “Freytag’s Pyramid” handout, this is where the story peaks and the characters’ fates are revealed. Another way of thinking about the climax is by defining it as the turning point in the narrative when the main conflict leads to an outcome that cannot be changed. The climax should clearly connect to the story’s main theme(s) and set up your emotional takeaway.
An extended metaphor in Walker’s “Am I Blue?”
What is Walker compares the experience of slaves being treated as objects and commodities to the experience of animals like Blue
According to the reading on how to write "Fiction,” the distinction between backstory and flashback.
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A backstory is “…any information about the past…” that is “…revealed in dialogue, or in the character’s thoughts, or in the narrative itself”, whereas flashback “…travels back from its [the narrative’s] current action to depict the past in scenes…” (Burroway 266).
The event that was the impetus for Tish Jones’ poem “What Does It All Mean”
What was the murder of George Floyd
The drama term that matches this definition: A character speaks the text, but their action or verbal cues reveal they are not being completely honest
What is a stage lie (Burroway 334).
The rule for paragraph breaks when formatting dialogue.
What is to start a new paragraph when another character speaks. As the “Formatting Dialogue handout explains, “…two characters…will never both have dialogue in the same paragraph for any reason” (Soffer).
The two extended metaphors Wilkerson uses in the excerpt we read from her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
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According to the reading on how to write “Creative Non-Fiction," the distinction between memoir and personal essay.
What is a "...memoir sets up a dialogue between the writer and his/her past, while the emphasis of the personal essay is likely to be a relationship, implied or sought between the writer and reader" (Burroway 227-8).
The advice Butch gives Eukiah twice in Lanford Wilson’s play.
What is “Never trust anything anybody says if it’s about horses” (192, 193)
In the reading on how to write “Poetry,” Amiri Baraka emphasizes the importance of a poem’s stance. Stance is another way of saying what.
What is a poem’s point of view (Burroway 311).
When the technique of “telling” should be used.
What is when you want to report concise information and get to the point. In other words, “telling” helps the author transition between the portions of “showing,” which are scenes that require more emphasis, descriptive details, and space.
The central theme that drives the conflict in Shima Tsuyoshi's "Bones"
What is the tension between modernity and tradition. Kamakichi is stuck between a dichotomy: industry's drive to profit by cutting down the banyan tree to create a resort, and the elder Kame's desire to honor dead warriors and preserve history by leaving the tree.
According to the reading on how to write "Fiction,” this aspect of plot is always rendered as a scene.
What is “…the crisis point of a story must always be manifested in an action. Another way of saying this is that the crisis is always a scene” (Burroway 265).
Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus” is about the art of what.
What is the art of dying.
Three ways to reveal a character’s thoughts in drama
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Five "showing" techniques
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