Fiction Vocab

What are Key Concepts?

• Sequence of events in a story

• Details

• Final Outcome

• a force working against a protagonist

What is Fiction (choose the best definition)

• a belief or statement that is false, but that is often held to be true because it is expedient to do so

• prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history

• invention or fabrication as opposed to fact

• writing that comes from a writers imagination

What is the main thing about a short story?

• Is short enough to be read at one sitting

• Usually revolves around one single idea

• Involves a more complicated plot

What is a round character?

• A one dimensional character and we know a little about them

• a less important character

• a fully developed character and we know lots about them

Name 2 parts of a plot structure

• Resolution and Denouement

• Conflict and Climax

• Falling Action and Internal Conflict

• Exposition and Rising Action

What is the Exposition

• The Plot "thickens" as the central conflict begins to unfold

• Provides background for the story

• The point of greatest interest and suspense

• Final Outcome

What is the Rising Action

• involves a struggle within a character

• Final Outcome

• Sequence of events in a story

• The Plot "thickens" as the central conflict begins to unfold

What is The central character or hero

• protagonist

• dynamic character

• Static Character

• Flat Character

Dynamic Character?

• A character that changes significantly

• A character that changes only a little or not at all

• Know a little bit about them

• Know lots about them

Tone???

• Writer attitude

• The Feeling