Fiction and Literary/Narrative NonFiction Vocab

the character who opposes the protagonist or the goals of the protagonists

• protagonist

• antagonist

• characterization

• authors purpose

the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium

• setting

• conflict

• audience

• antagonist

intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, syntax, devices, and diction to create an effective written work; author's craft may vary by genre

• author's purpose

• author's craft

• characterization

• tone

the reason an author writes about a particular topic (to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work

• climax

• context

• author's craft

• author's purpose

the method in which an author constructs a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance (direct characterization) or by revealing aspects of a character through their actions, thoughts, speech, other characters (indirect characterization)

• characterization

• author's purpose

• conflict

• context

the highest point in the plot where the problem/conflict reaches its peak

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

• resolution

in literature, the opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story. Conflict may be internal, as a psychological conflict with a character, or external (man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. society)

• context

• conflict

• climax

• audience

the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage

• genre

• flashback

• context

• conflict

a stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics,

• revising

• editing

• theme

• genre

the element of plot structure that takes place after the climax and begins to resolve the conflict(s) of the story before the resolution

• falling action

• rising action

• climax

• resolution