The meaningful organization of actions and events as we find them in the text.
What is plot?
100
Turning point, key events, reflecting a perspective
vs
Exposition, introduction of new characters, transitions, end/resolution
What is scene and summary?
100
Refers to the author's techniques in creating and developing a character.
What is characterization?
200
A brief fictional prose narrative that may range from about 500 to 2,000 words to 12,000-15,00 words.
What is short story?
200
The raw material for a narrative work (such as a novel, play, or short story), the basic shell of actions, agents, and events in causal-chronological order.
What is story?
200
Summarizing and describing aspects or qualities of the character.
Allowing that characters' actions and choices to convey his/her purpose and inner being through dramatic illusion.
What is showing and telling?
200
This kind of character is realistic, possessing complexity and generally attaining development. Such characters are the most credible as representations of human beings.
Characters defined by one or at most two related traits.
What is flat and round characters?
200
In dialogue, these are description of physical action-- minor and major-- that fall between the lines of speech.
What is beats?
300
A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
What is novel?
300
The main narrative line, with which we begin...when it serves as the occasion for an inset tale that comes to dominate the text.
What is frame story?
300
Achieved by:
Witholding info from character/reader
Lack of intense/thorough backstory
High emotion
Character witholding info from other characters
Foreshadowing
What is suspense?
300
THe character to whom our interest, as readers, is most fully rooted by the structure of a fictional work.
Gain their identity by opposing the protagonist.
What is protagonist and antagonist?
300
Imagery that appeals to the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
What is visual, auditory, gustatory, tactile, and olfactory imagery?
400
The story must represent one action, a complete whole... a beginning, middle and end. A well-constructed plot.
What is narrative unity?
400
Please state the 6 steps of plot in Freytag's Pyramid.
What is exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
400
A history or background created for a fictional character.
A scene set in a time earlier than the main story.
What is backstory and flashback?
400
A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.
What is rival?
400
Place and time, atmosphere, storyworld
What is setting?
500
The writer's or narrator's attitude toward the story.
Refers to dominant feels or atmosphere conveyed by the writing.
What is tone and mood?
500
An event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster
What is catastrophe?
500
A story, told by a character in the frame story, which has the effect of claiming the reader's focus of attention and stopping or pausing the frame story while it unfolds.
What is inset tale?
500
Characters that mirror one another, symbolic counterpart to a character.
This character serves primarily to bring out contrasting character in another.
A ghostly double haunting a character by representing aspects of his interior self that he has repressed.