Misc.
What is plot?
Organization of the main events of a work of fiction.
This is where two or more characters have a problem.
What is character vs. character?
Reorder these elements of the plot diagram: Falling Action, Exposition, Climax, Resolution, Rising Action
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
This is where the narrator is not a character in the story and talks about the characters. The narrator can only read one character's mind, feelings, and motive.
What is 3rd person?
Problems that occur after conflict is introduced.
What is rising action?
This is the turning point of a story where the main character comes face-to-face with a conflict that causes the main character to change in some way. The "high point" of a story.
What is the climax?
Define 3rd person.
Where the narrator is not a character in the story and is "all-knowing." This type of narrator can read every character's feelings, motives, and thoughts. The "god" narrator.
Define characters.
A person in a novel, play, or movie.
Anything that happens between the climax and conclusion.
What is falling action?
When it came to life Audrey was practical. She accepted all she was told to accept. And there had been quite a lot of it. She had been in London for the last five years but for one short holiday. There had been the big blitz, then the uneasy lull, then the little blitz, now the fly bombs. But she still accepted all she was told to accept, tried to remember all she was told to remember. The trouble was that she could not always forget all she was told to forget. She could not forget, for instance, that on her next birthday she would be twenty-nine years of age. Not a girl any longer. Not really. The war had already gobbled up several years and who knew how long it would go on? Audrey dreaded growing old. She disliked and avoided old people and thought with horror of herself as old. She had never told anyone her real and especial reason for loathing the war. She had never spoken of it---even to her friend Monica. What is the POV of this story?
What is 3rd person?
Lydia’s school memories were colored by her dealings with her little sister Maddie. Freespirited, strong-willed Maddie, whose spontaneity didn’t sit well with her teachers. “Maddie’s in trouble again,” she’d hear from her friends, and, sure enough, Maddie would be sitting on the bench outside the principal’s office, swinging her legs back and forth, giggling, shameless. She didn't hear her conscience. Lydia would be called out of class to be given the written version of her sister’s misdemeanors to carry home to their parents. You couldn’t trust Maddie to deliver the bad news herself. What is the POV of this story?
3rd person.
Computers, networks, and the worldwide web have changed the way we share information. Letters and long-distance phone calls have become passé. They’ve been replaced by text messaging and the Internet phenomenon known as social networking—a quick way to maintain contact with friends and family in a communal on-line space. Most social networking sites enable users to create their own web pages that include photos, background information, and blogs. What network users don’t consider, however, is that these web pages also provide employers with a new, completely legal way to check out potential employees. What is the POV of this passage?
1st person