Types of Stories
Parts of a Story
Narration Types
Narration Techniques
Other
100
A narrative in which the main character, usually a child or adolescent, undergoes an important experience or rite of passage.
What is Initiation Story.
100
A scene relived in a character's memory.
What is a Flashback.
100
A story in which the narrator is a participant in the action.
What is a First-Person Narrator.
100
The time and place of a literary work.
What is Setting.
100
A generally recurring subject or idea conspicuoulsy evident in a literary work.
What is Theme.
200
A brief, usually allegorical narrative that teaches a moral.
What is a Parable.
200
The resolution or conclusion of a literary work.
What is the Denouement.
200
A type of p.o.v. where the narrator sees into the minds of some but not all of the characters.
What is Limited Omniscience.
200
Enjoyable anxiety created in the reader by the author's handling of plot.
What is Suspense.
200
Refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts.
What is In Medias Res.
300
A narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events consitently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas.
What is Allegory.
300
The central stuggle between two or more forces in a story
What is the Conflict.
300
A narrator that has the ability to move freely through the consciousness of any character.
What is Omniscient Narrator.
300
A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language.
What is Irony.
300
A character with only one outstanding trait.
What is a Flat Character.
400
A humorous short narrative thst provides a wildly exagerrated version of events.
What is a Tall Tale.
400
The parts of the play or story that ead to the climax.
What is the Rising Action.
400
A narration in which the narrator merely reports dialogue and action with minimal interpretation or access to the minds of characters.
What is Objective or Dramatic Point of View.
400
Any established feature or technique in literature that is commonly understood by both author and reader.
What is Convention.
400
An incident in a large narrative that has unity in itself.
What is an Episode.
500
A genre that creates terror and suspense, usually set in an isolated castle, mansion or monastery populated by mysterious or threatening individuals.
What is Gothic Fiction.
500
An element that recurs significantly throughout a narrative.
What is a Motif.
500
A type of modern narration that uses literary devices, especially interior monologue, in an attempt to duplicate the human consciousness.
What is Stream of Consciousness.
500
The use of specific regional material to create atmosphere or realism in a literary work.
What is Local Color.
500
A recurring symbol found in myth and literature across different cultures and eras.
What is an Archetype.
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