Setting / Dialogue
The three elements that make up setting.
What is time, atmosphere, and place?
The series of events in a story or play.
What is the plot?
The character who opposes the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
These three pronouns are examples of those used in third person point of view.
What is he, she, they, it?
Opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and makes the plot move.
What is conflict?
The way an author uses setting, objects, or internal thoughts of characters to create emotion, mood, or experiences for the reader.
What is atmosphere?
The central topic, subject, or moral within a narrative. It is the message the writer is trying to convey through the story.
What is theme?
The descriptions given by the author about the characters in a story such as personality, habits, likes and dislikes.
What are character traits?
The point of view that is used when the narrator is all-knowing and can see into the minds of all of the characters.
What is third person omniscient?
When the conflict reaches peak or turning point.
These two reasons are why setting is important to the story.
What is character, background, and mood establishment?
What are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
A character who experiences a significant change or development over the course of the narrative.
What is a dynamic character?
A character (often in first person point of view) who fails to understand all implications of the story he or she tells OR deliberately misleads the reader.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The four types of conflict.
What are person vs. person, person vs. nature, person vs. society, and person vs. self?
You use this form of punctuation to indicate dialogue.
What are quotation marks?
Ordinary language used in speaking or writing.
When a character is defined by what they say, think, or do.
What is indirect characterization?
Self-help books, directions, and instructions are writing examples from this point of view.
What is second person point of view?
Identify the type of conflict in the the following passage:
I was sitting there, smoking a cigarette, when Jerry came back in from making a phone call. He glared at me for a second.
"You shouldn't be smoking."
What is man vs. man?
A speech-related verb that indicates which character is speaking and how they are speaking. (Hint: think back to our lesson on Open Window)
What is a dialogue/speaker tag?
The author's use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story. Writers use this to build their reader's expectations and to create suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
A character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character.
What is a supporting character?
The narrator is a character in the story, meaning the story is told from this point of view.
What is first person point of view?
Takes place within the mind of a character. The character struggles to make a decision, take an action or overcome a feeling. A type of conflict that is not person vs. self.
What is internal conflict?