English Essentials - Powering through Prose - 'Big Picture' Questions in Prose (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)

This video tutorial covers essential elements of analyzing prose fiction, including context, purpose, and genre. It explores narrative structures like linear, nonlinear, circular, and frame narratives, and discusses the importance of setting in characterization and theme. The tutorial also examines narrative perspectives, including first-person, second-person, and third-person, and their impact on storytelling. Characterization is explored through roles like protagonist and antagonist, and concepts like hamartia and anagnorisis. The video concludes with a summary of these key elements, preparing viewers to analyze and create narratives.

What role does perspective play in narrative structure?

How can an unreliable narrator affect the reader's experience?

What is hamartia, and how does it contribute to a protagonist's journey?

Define anagnorisis and its significance in a narrative.