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Details & Setting
Dialogue
Other Forms of Characterization
Plot
Freytag's Pyramid & POV
100
A detail that appeals to one of the five senses
What is a concrete detail?
100
Dialogue is a form of this method of characterization.
What is direct?
100
This is our most highly developed means of perception, the sense through which we receive more nonsensuous information than any other.
What is sight/appearance?
100
This term refers to a crisis action in the mind that is also manifested in action.
What is an epiphany?
100
This term describes the interruption of the normal with the abnormal and occurs toward the beginning of a story.
What is inciting incident (or stout stake)?
200
This element of fiction can include locale, period, weather and time of day.
What is setting?
200
These are the three ways to convey speech in fiction.
What is summary, indirect speech (free indirect discourse), and direct quotation?
200
Action in a short story embodies this internal experience and is therefore more than just external movements.
What is a decision, desire or discovery?
200
Drama equals this plus this.
What is desire plus danger?
200
This is the type of narration that is expressed from a "god-like" narrator.
What is third person omniscient?
300
One aspect of atmosphere is this term for an attitude taken by the narrative voice that can be described in terms of a quality – sinister, facetious, formal, solemn, wry, etc.
What is tone?
300
Dialogue should not include this type of speech, which occurs in real life but is ineffective in written fiction.
What is chit chat, filler, small talk, or long monologues?
300
This method of characterization is most frequently used in conflict with the other methods in order to reveal a complex individual in fiction.
What is thought?
300
Aristotle's term for the protagonist's gradual "pushing away" from his or her desire by circumstances or antagonists.
What is a reversal?
300
This is how one would describe the psychic distance in the following sentence: While the whippoorwills trilled in the trees, Martha Wilbur got in her car one morning and sped out of the driveway.
What is removed?
400
This is the definition of a significant detail.
What is a detail that appeals to one of the five senses and also conveys an idea or a judgment or both.
400
This is the reason that adverbs should be avoided in dialogue tags.
What is because it is better to show this kind of tone through the characters actions than to tell it in an adverb?
400
Name five of the six forms of characterization.
What is dialogue, action, appearance, thought, authorial interpretation and interpretation by another character?
400
The power dynamic between two characters in conflict must be this, or their battle will seem one-sided.
What is equal?
400
This is a feeling (included in Freytag's Pyramid) and can also indicate how the protagonist has connected or disconnected from others or self.
What is resolution?
500
The best significant details operate on multiple levels in a story. Name three things they can do.
What is further the plot, characterize, express mood/tone, compare or contrast the inner life of a character with the outer setting, continue the metaphor and thus deepen the meaning, and draw us into a particular place or era?
500
This is what writers of fiction can do if their characters get stuck in the same back-and-forth speech.
What is have them change tactics?
500
This term describes the following concept in characterization: if you aim for the general in your character, you’re likely to achieve the vague, dull or stereotypical, whereas if you aim for the individual, you’re more apt to create a character in whom a reader can see aspects of himself or herself
What is universal paradox?
500
Besides conflict, this is another way to define plot in a fictional work.
What is connection and disconnection?
500
Sometimes, first person point-of-view is narrated by someone other than the protagonist, and is called this type of narrator.
What is peripheral?