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FICTION is prose writing that tells about FICTION is prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events. imaginary characters and events.
Some fiction is entirely made-up, while other Some fiction is entirely made-up, while other fiction is fiction is based onbased on real events and/or people real events and/or people
Elements of Fiction
Plot
PLOTS CAN BE TOLD IN:
Chronological order
Flashback
In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition
Plot refers to the sequence of events that make up a story, usually centering around a main conflict.
IN YOUR OWN WORDS: Plot refers to what happens in a text.
Plot Components
Exposition: the start of the story, the situation before the action starts
Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax
Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action
Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax
Resolution / Denouement: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads
Conflict
Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.
Types of Conflict
Human vs Nature
Human vs Society
Human vs Self2. INTERNAL CONFLICT
Human vs Human1. EXTERNAL CONFLICT
Theme
The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
This is the deeper meaning, the
main lesson/message/moral that the author hopes the reader will understand at the end of the story
Point of View
The perspective or angle from which a story is being told
There are several types: First-Person-Point-of-View: When the
narrator telling the story is one of the characters, and tells the story as a personal account
Third-Person-Point-of-View: When the narrator is not one of the characters (has no name, and does not participate in any of the action of the plot)
Point of View (continued)
There are also two types of Third-Person-Point-of-View:
Third-Limited-Point-of-View: When the narrator sees the world through one character’s eyes and reveals only that character’s thoughts
Third-Omniscient-Point-of-View: When the narrator sees into the minds of all the characters
Setting
The setting of the literary work is the time and place of the action.
Time can include not only the historical period—past, present, or future—but also a specific year, season, or time of day.
Place—though Place—though usually physical—usually physical—may also involve may also involve the social, the social, economic, or economic, or cultural cultural environment of the environment of the story story
IRONY
The difference between appearance and reality, expectation and result.
There are THREE kinds of Irony:
-Verbal Irony: a word or phrase used to suggest the opposite of its actual meaning
-Dramatic Irony: When there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the readers know is true
MORE IRONY!
-Situational Irony: When an event directly contradicts expectations of the reader or of the characters