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Elements of PLOT
Laurence Yep
Elements of FICTION
"The Homecoming"
Mystery
100
The sequence of events in a story based on characters and a conflict.
What is plot?
100
In the story, "The Homecoming," what is the narrator's pointof view?
What is third person omniscient?
100
Long works of fiction
What are novels?
100
He thinks he has a better answer for everything.
Who is the woodcutter?
100
This is why something happens as a result of something.
What is cause? (cause and effect)
200
Introduces characters, setting basic situation and problem.
What is the exposition?
200
What was Laurence Yep's purpose for writing the short story "The Homecoming?"
What is entertainment? (to entertain)
200
Brief works of fiction
What are short stories?
200
It wasn't his house to enter.
Why did the woman kick the woodcutter out of her house?
200
Interfering and losing track of time (cause and effect relationship).
What is the effect of hanging out with the saints?
300
The turning point in the story. Suspense and curiousity is at it's peak.
What is the climax?
300
Novels, Novellas, and Short Stories.
What are the three major types of fiction?
300
"The Homecoming" and "Greyling" are examples of these.
What is fiction? What are short stories?
300
A seal that turns to a human on land.
What is a selchie?
400
One is increasing suspense through actions and events and the other is decreasing to the conclusion.
What is the rising action and falling action?
400
The narrator is person outside the story telling from his/her perspective.
What is third person point of view?
400
Thousands of years and seven days.
What is time for the saints? What is time for the woodcutter?
400
Somethng based on evidence and can be proven.
What is a fact?
500
These are the story elements in sequential order.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
500
Characters, plot, setting, narrator/point-of-view, and theme.
What are the key elements of fiction?
500
He was offering advice and being ignored.
What is the chess game between the old man and fat man?
500
Restating text in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?