Level 1 - General terms
A piece of writing that comes from a writer's imagination, is not factual but can be sometimes based on facts, real experiences or people
What is fiction?
A person who wrote a particular book
What is an author?
A narrator who is part of the story and tells it from his/her own point of view
What is a first-person narrator?
Texts that provide facts about real events, things or people
What is non-fiction?
A usually fictitious person who tells the story in a novel or film, not the same as the author
What is a narrator?
A narrator who is not a character within the events related, but stands ‘outside’ those events
What is a third-person narrator?
A series of events that make up the main story in a book, film etc.
What is a plot?
A main person who takes part in the action of a fictional text
What is a character?
A narrator that knows everything about the characters.
What is an omniscient narrator?
The place and time at which the action of a fictional text takes place
What is the setting?
A main character in a fictional text.
What is a protagonist?
A narrator who perceives and knows the same things as one character.
What is a selective narrator?
The relation in which the narrator stand to the story
What is a point of view?
A character who is generally flat, stereotypical and not of central importance to the plot and tends to fade into the background of the story
What is a minor character?
A narrator who merely reports the events without having access to the thoughts and feelings of the characters.
What is an observer narrator?