Story Principles Pretest

Description, dialogue, and behavior reveal the qualities of persons to readers, a process which is called:

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This is how narrators, characters, or speakers see their, understand, and act upon their circumstances, which may or may not be at odds with the reality of the main plot; in narration, a character is typically POV teller of the story or an outside observer who has limited or omniscient knowledge of the story:

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A character’s actions or inactions as well as a characters’ choices—in speech, action, and inaction—reveals what they value and ultimately desire. Inconsistencies between the private thoughts of characters and their actual behavior reveal tensions and complexities between private and professed values.

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A character’s capacity to make choices. Competing, conflicting, or inconsistent choices or actions contribute to complexity in a text.

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The aftermath of the story’s greatest moment of tension that shows how the characters and conflicts have changed once the story’s defining point has changed the world:

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The principal character in a narrative whose action principally advances the plot (who isn’t always a hero); opposing this figure is the adversarial antagonist (who isn’t always a villain), who may be another character, the internal conflicts of the protagonist, a collective (such as society), or nature:

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Characters who serve to illuminate, through contrast, the traits, attributes, or values of another character; this is a subcategory of juxtaposition:

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This means “extreme pride” or “shaming/harming others for pleasure,” and is an arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall; he usually enjoys a powerful position; as a result of which, he overestimates his capabilities to such an extent that he loses contact with reality. A character suffering from this tries to transgress normal human limits and violates moral codes.  Aristotle stated that this stems from thinking that one’s self is “better than other people,” and that the very rich and young men are most susceptible to this ultimate vice, the opposite of which is the hero's humility:

An aspect of a character that causes him or her to fall due to—though not entirely because of—some weakness of character, some moral blindness, or error:

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This is the time, place, duration, and situation of a story:

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