Elements of Fiction
The purposeful word choices the author makes.
What is "diction"?
What is the exposition?
True or False. A theme is a single word that captures the main idea of the text.
What is false?
That is a topic.
The author's attitude towards a certain topic.
What is "tone"?
This part of the plot is often referred to as the "height of tension"?
What is the climax?
When a character struggles with an issue internally that is this kind of conflict.
What is Character vs Self?
The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.
What is "mood"?
When the Kool-Aid Wino and his friend make their way across the field to the market for Kool-Aid.
What is the rising action?
Addiction is a detrimental pattern that ultimately leaves us unsatisfied is a possible theme from this text we read.
What is "The Kool Aid Wino"?
A dove is often a ____ in literature for peace or freedom.
What is a symbol?
This moment in the plot is the author's chance to tie up loose ends.
What is the resolution?
This is required in a theme paragraph in order to show readers a specific line, passage or event in a work of literature.
What is a concrete detail?
When the audience or reader knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
The fourth stage of plot development that occurs after the climax.
What is the falling action?
This is a specific line, passage, or event in a work of literature that we use in our writing to prove the theme we have identified. Hint: it is 2 words
What is a concrete detail?