Week 5 Vocabulary Words

Well-written narrative ________ makes it nearly impossible for readers to put down your book

• Tension

• Excitement

• Suspense

• On edge

The ___________ sets the scene, mood and introduces the characters. Try to include 'When', 'Where', 'Who' and 'What' in this section to explain to the reader what the story is going to be about.

the representation of the traits, motives, and psychology of a character in a narrative. __________ may occur through direct description, in which the character's qualities are described by a narrator, another character, or by the character him or herself.

• Characterisation

• Representation

• Character

• Depiction

A work based on a story previously told in a different medium.

An existent that recurs throughout the story and often has a symbolic significance.

• Communication

• Motif

• Dialogue

• Discourse

Initial stage in the evolution of a plot where the setting and the characters are introduced.

Use of discourse to state something different from, or even opposite to, what is meant.

• Indicate

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Ironic

A narrator who knows everything about the existents of the storyworld, including the internal or psychological states of all characters and the unfolding of events.

The main character of a story, the one who struggles to achieve some goal.

• Character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Main Character

A relevant meaning identified by an interpreter in narrative discourse.