Elements of Fiction
Where and when the text takes place.
What is a setting?
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
The entity that performs the action.
What is a subject?
A story.
What is a narrative?
Means "across" or "through".
What is the prefix "trans"?
The beginning of the story which introduces the setting, character(s), and hints at the conflict.
What is an exposition?
When the author shows the reader what the personality of the character is through speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions or/and looks.
What is the STEAL method?
The action performed by the subject; the verb in the sentence.
What is a predicate?
The turning point in the story.
What is a climax?
Means "not" or "in".
What is the prefix "in"?
A conflict that takes place in a character's mind, perhaps about making a decision.
What is internal conflict?
A character that does not experience changes during the course of the story.
When a sentence is missing a subject or a predicate.
What is a fragment?
The end of the story where the conflict is resolved (not always happy...)
What is a resolution?
Means "increase/addition" or "towards".
What is the prefix "ad"?
This applies to anyone, anywhere. It does not relate to specific plot events or characters.
What is an universal theme?
Doing something for a personal/internal reward.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Made from one dependent clause and one independent clause, joined by a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
What is an inciting incident?
Means "relating to".
What is the suffix "tic" or "ic"?
Some examples are Voldemort from Harry Potter and the kids' jealousy from All Summer in a Day.
What are antagonists?
A dominant idea in a piece of literature.
What is a motif?
A group of related words that doesn't have a subject AND a predicate.
What is a phrase?
The framework within using the order of the plot events.
What is a narrative structure?
Means "feelings" or "disease".
What is the root "path"?