Exploring Characterization
Narration
Issues, concerns and ideas
Prose forms and structures
Contexts pre- and post- 1900s
100
This includes physical appearance, their past, how others view them, what the characters think or feel. 

What is characterization? 

100
This is the point of view  from which the story is told.

What is perspective? 

100

Issues and concerns can be explored through important events and the real-world.

What is social and historical context?

100
This is an interruption to the current events of the narrative, where a writer inserts past events in order to provide background or context. 

What is a flashback? 

100

They are time specific issues

What are social and historical contexts? 
200

Writers use this to create powerful characters by describing places. Towns can mean rich people, the countryside can mean innocence.

What is setting?

200

They can be trusted because they have the whole picture and/or don't intend to mislead.

What is a reliable narrator?

200

Writers can use this to explore wider issues and concerns. They (the issues and concerns) can reflect the location in which they take place?

What is setting?

200

When reading works of fiction, the reader expects events to unfold in this matter. 

What is a plotline?

200
Social class, education, marriage and divorce, poverty and social justice, the natural world

What are pre - 1900s contexts

300

This reveals the aspects of the character, it helps develop or progress the narrative and explores the relationship between characters.

What is dialogue?

300

The narrator occasionally comments directly on the events of the story

What is intrusive? 

300

Writers use female characters to explore the particular constraints and issues they faced in their time period. It was based around this institution.

What is marriage?

300

This is crucial to a narrative- it helps to win the audience's attention and what might follow. It can include a series of questions, the writer's choice of syntax, and imagery.

What is an effective opening?

300

War and political conflicts, alienation, psychological damage, global migration.

What are post-1900s concerns.

400

It is important to analyze this. That writer will use it to describe a character. 

What is Language? 

400

This is a special type of 3rd person narration in which the narrator sometimes takes on the tone, lexicon, and register of the character, thereby giving access to the character's thoughts and feelings.

What is free indirect discourse? 

400

Elation, somberness, melacholy.

What is mood?

400

This may not lead to the resolution of a narrative. In fact, it rarely does. 

What is an ending?

400
This narrative technique experiments with language, the representations of time, and consciousness. 

What is modernism? 

500

This is an idea, object or image that is repeated many times throughout a text. An example is the wicked stepmother in fairy tales. 

What is a motif?

500

This considers not only the form of narration, but also how the story is being told. This will include what words are used or overused and how formal/informal the register is.

What is voice?

500

Writers use this in reference to the limitations or social challenges on  account of their gender.

What is rebellion?

500
Fiction can be written in either chronological order or narrative order. 

What is narrative structure? 

500

These are affected by the following:

Characters whose thought processes and internal selves are laid bare, the literature is shaped by uncertainty and instability, and the narratives are nonchronological. 

What are form and structure?