Fiction Prep

What are the key elements of the plot?

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e

d

c

b

Intermission

Exposition

Climax

Rising Action

Resolution

Falling Action

Characterization. How does a character ----- the scene?

• What does the character say? How does the character speak?

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• What does the character look like? How does the character dress?

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• What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings?

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• What does the character do?

  How does the character behave?

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• What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people?

  How do others feel or behave?

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Answer explanation

When the reader or audience knows something that the character does not is ​ (a)   irony. When the speaker says something different from what they mean, the situation is often the opposite of what they are saying. This is an example of ​ (b)   irony. When an event or outcome takes place that is opposite of what the person expected is ​ (c)   irony.

• dramatic
• verbal
• situational
• realistic
• made-up
• funny

Readers can infer that it is​ (a)   ​ ​; and that the main character is ​​ (b)  

• spring
• taking a break.
• summer
• fall
• winter
• traveling
• running away
• no longer working.
• running away.
• traveling.

Typically, plots follow a linear or​ (a)   order of events, but that isn’t always the case.  Sometimes the author will allow us to glimpse into the ​ (b)   (​ (c)   ) or see ​ (d)   events (​ (e)   ).

• chronological
• past
• flashback
• future
• foreshadowing

Identify which section indicates a flashback.

A ​ (a)   occurs when the action of the plot is interrupted by a flashback to something that happened at an ​ (b)   time. This helps provide ​ (c)   to help you understand the ​ (d)   of the ​ (e)   .

• flashback
• earlier
• background information
• current events
• plot

A ​ (a)   occurs when the action of the plot is interrupted by a flashforward to something that happens in the ​ (b)   . This builds ​ (c)   for what will or may come in the future. It also creates ​ (d)   irony.

• flashforward
• future
• anticipation
• dramatic

Identify the types of irony.

a

b

c

Verbal

Dramatic

Situational

This is an example of a flashforward.

• True

• False

Answer explanation