Elements of a Story
This term describes a genre or narrative in which the story takes place in a world significantly different from our own, often involving advanced technology, dystopian societies, or alternate realities.
What is Futuristic/Alternate Setting?
This genre of story usually combines science and technology with critiques on human society.
What is science fiction?
This term refers to a reluctant or chosen individual who embarks on a journey to save humanity or explore new worlds.
What is The Hero?
This term refers to the physical environment where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
What is the future?
This term refers to elements in a story that explore possibilities beyond the known world.
What are speculative elements?
This term refers to the idea that small actions or changes in the past can lead to significant and unpredictable consequences in the future, often explored in time travel stories.
What is the butterly effect?
Name four categories useful for creating a character.
What are backstory, personality traits, goals and motivations, character flaws, appearance, and relationships
This term refers to consistent rules and limitations within a fictional world’s magical or technological systems.
What is internal logic?
This trope refers to the idea that aliens built structures on Earth, such as the pyramids.
What is ancient astronauts?
What term describes the creation of a fictional world that is believable and consistent within the context of the story?
What is world building?
The emotional high point or turning point of a story, often leading to the resolution.
What is the climax?
This term refers to an archetype used in Sci-Fi to explore themes of consciousness and morality.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
This type of Sci-Fi story is often set in vast, expansive universes with interstellar travel, space battles, and complex political or military conflicts.
What is a space opera?
This trope refers to humans merging with technology, often resulting in cybernetic enhancements.
What is cyborgs?
Science Fiction is closely related to these other two genres.
What are fantasy and horror?
This is the literary term for EVERYTHING that happens AFTER the climax.
What is denouement?
This term refers to the main character in a story.
What is the antagonist?
In a dystopian setting, society is usually characterized by these two qualities.
What are oppression and fear?
This trope involves traveling to the past or future, often in a machine or portal.
What is time travel?
This 1965 novel by Frank Herbert, which takes place on the desert planet Arrakis, is one of the best-selling sci-fi novels of all time.
What is Dune?
What is Abhinaya's favorite Sci-Fi short story? (TIP: She read this in High School and it blew her mind.)
What is The Veldt? (Also acceptable is A Sound of Thunder)
This is a character whose qualities contrast with another character, often highlighting particular traits.
What is a foil?
This type of Sci-Fi setting depicts an idealized, advanced society where technology has eliminated poverty, crime, and suffering - though often with underlying conflicts or ethical dilemmas.
What is a utopian future?
This is a plot device that is commonly used to allow characters to travel across galaxies easily and without aging.
What is faster-than-light travel?