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Language, Literature and Writing Part 4 - Fiction
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FICTION TERMS
Antagonist: the main character in a work of fiction who comes into conflict with the protagonist (hero or heroine).
Character: featured in a story and used as a medium to communicate/interact with the reader; he or she is given a specific attitude or attitudes, appearance, name, etc. to direct a storyline. Characters can be major or minor and static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
Characterization: the method used by a writer to make a character in a story seem like a real person. Common ways for writers to illustrate characters is through their speech, dress, actions, and mannerisms.
Climax: the moment of greatest intensity in a work of fiction; the most exciting and important part of a story, usually occurring at or near the end. The climax is the turning point in the action.
Complication: a situation or detail of a character that complicates the main thread of a plot. A complication builds up and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work.
Conflict: a struggle, disagreement, or difference between opposing forces in a literary work, usually resolved by the end of the work.
Connotation: in a literary work, an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its dictionary definition; an implication that goes beyond the actual meaning of a word.
Convention: a traditional or common style often used in literature, theater, or art to create a particular effect.
Denotation: the precise/actual meaning of a word outside of the feelings it evokes; the dictionary meaning of a word or phrase. In fiction writing, writers will play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations or implied associational implications.
Dénouement: the outcome of a plot; the resolution or final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work. The dénouement reveals the answers to secrets/misunderstandings in the plot and comes after the climax.
Dialogue: a written composition in which two or more characters are represented as conversing; the conversations between characters in a literary work, typically enclosed within quotation marks.
Diction: the choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness, in a literary work. Writers will use words to reveal character, imply certain attitudes, convey action, demonstrate themes, and indicate values.
Dramatic Irony: dramatic irony, which often shows itself as some type of miscommunication, occurs when the reader becomes aware of something important of which the characters in the story are not aware.
Exposition: this also refers to the first stage of a plot, in which necessary background information is provided.
Fiction: a story about people and events that are not real; literature that tells a story that has been imagined by the writer.
Flashback: when a relevant past event is brought up in the current time of the story. A common way for this to occur is through a narration or a dream. Flashbacks create complications within the chronology of the plot to help enrich the experience of time.
Flat Character: an uncomplicated character in a story who is illustrated by very few traits. A flat character is opposite to a round character. Although such characters are important, they tend to remain static in their temperaments and personalities throughout the story.
Foil: a character in a story whose purpose is to bring out certain characteristics in either the main character or in other characters. Thus, the foil character will contrast with and parallel those characters.
Foreshadowing: to give a suggestion of something that will happen in the story.
Image: a mental picture or representation of a person, place, or thing in a literary work. The use of images is a powerful literary tool, as images have the ability to convey states of being, feelings, thoughts, and actions.
Imagery: the images collected and used in a written work to add to the ambiance; language used by a writer that causes readers to imagine pictures in their minds, which gives them a mental image of the people, places, and things in a story.
Motif: the reoccurring aspect (object, issue) in a story; can also be two binary elements in a piece of writing (e.g., bad versus good). A recurring salient thematic element, especially a dominant idea or central theme.
Narrative: a collection of events featured in a story that are placed in a certain order and recounted to tell a story. The story may or may not be true, and the events are placed in a specific order.
Narrator: the person or character who tells and explains a story; the person who says the words that are heard as part of a story; the person describing what is happening in a story; a person who provides the narration for something.
Personification: attributing human characteristics to something that is not human (a thing, an animal, or an abstraction).
Plot: a the direction of a story's main events and incidents and how they relate to one another.
Point of View (POV): the angle from which a story is told or narrated. Point of view can be first person, objective, limited omniscient, or omniscient. First person: the narrator is either a character in the story or an observer. Objective: the narrator knows (or seems to know) no more than the reader. Limited omniscient: the narrator knows some things about the characters, but not everything. Omniscient: the narrator knows everything about the characters.
Protagonist: the principal or main character in a literary work.
Recognition: the point at which a character acknowledges his or her situation for what it really is; the act of knowing who or what someone or something is because of previous knowledge or experience.
Resolution: the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict or problem; the act of resolving something.
Reversal: the point in the plot at which the action turns in an unexpected direction; usually involves the protagonist.
Rising Action: the set of conflicts in a story that lead up to the climax.
Round Character: a character in a story who is complex, dynamic, and maybe even contradictory; a round character is the opposite of a flat character. A round character's personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
Setting: the time, place, and conditions in which the action of a story takes place and which establish its context.
Subject: the main topic of a piece of writing; what a story is about. A subject can be found in a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, or a book.
Subplot: a subordinate plot in fiction that coexists with the main plot.
Symbol: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance, especially a visible sign of something invisible; an object or act representing something in the unconscious mind that has been repressed.
Syntax: the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses) in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of these words and phrases creates prose, verse, and dialogue.
Tale: a story about imaginary events; an exciting or dramatic story; a story about someone's actual experiences; an exciting story that may not be completely true.
Tone: a particular pitch or change of pitch constituting an element in the intonation of a phrase or sentence; the style or manner of expression in speaking or writing.
Tragic Hero/Tragic Figure: a protagonist whose story comes to an unhappy end due to his or her own behavior and character flaws.
Understatement: saying that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
Writing Style: the ways in which an author chooses to write words for his or her readers, including how he or she arranges sentences, paragraphs, dialogue, and verse. Style also refers to how the author develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques.
Antagonist: the main character in a work of fiction who comes into conflict with the protagonist (hero or heroine).
Character: featured in a story and used as a medium to communicate/interact with the reader; he or she is given a specific attitude or attitudes, appearance, name, etc. to direct a storyline. Characters can be major or minor and static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change).
Characterization: the method used by a writer to make a character in a story seem like a real person. Common ways for writers to illustrate characters is through their speech, dress, actions, and mannerisms.
Climax: the moment of greatest intensity in a work of fiction; the most exciting and important part of a story, usually occurring at or near the end. The climax is the turning point in the action.
Complication: a situation or detail of a character that complicates the main thread of a plot. A complication builds up and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work.
Conflict: a struggle, disagreement, or difference between opposing forces in a literary work, usually resolved by the end of the work.
Connotation: in a literary work, an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its dictionary definition; an implication that goes beyond the actual meaning of a word.
Convention: a traditional or common style often used in literature, theater, or art to create a particular effect.
Denotation: the precise/actual meaning of a word outside of the feelings it evokes; the dictionary meaning of a word or phrase. In fiction writing, writers will play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations or implied associational implications.
Dénouement: the outcome of a plot; the resolution or final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work. The dénouement reveals the answers to secrets/misunderstandings in the plot and comes after the climax.
Dialogue: a written composition in which two or more characters are represented as conversing; the conversations between characters in a literary work, typically enclosed within quotation marks.
Diction: the choice of words, especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness, in a literary work. Writers will use words to reveal character, imply certain attitudes, convey action, demonstrate themes, and indicate values.
Dramatic Irony: dramatic irony, which often shows itself as some type of miscommunication, occurs when the reader becomes aware of something important of which the characters in the story are not aware.
Exposition: this also refers to the first stage of a plot, in which necessary background information is provided.
Fiction: a story about people and events that are not real; literature that tells a story that has been imagined by the writer.
Flashback: when a relevant past event is brought up in the current time of the story. A common way for this to occur is through a narration or a dream. Flashbacks create complications within the chronology of the plot to help enrich the experience of time.
Flat Character: an uncomplicated character in a story who is illustrated by very few traits. A flat character is opposite to a round character. Although such characters are important, they tend to remain static in their temperaments and personalities throughout the story.
Foil: a character in a story whose purpose is to bring out certain characteristics in either the main character or in other characters. Thus, the foil character will contrast with and parallel those characters.
Foreshadowing: to give a suggestion of something that will happen in the story.
Image: a mental picture or representation of a person, place, or thing in a literary work. The use of images is a powerful literary tool, as images have the ability to convey states of being, feelings, thoughts, and actions.
Imagery: the images collected and used in a written work to add to the ambiance; language used by a writer that causes readers to imagine pictures in their minds, which gives them a mental image of the people, places, and things in a story.
Motif: the reoccurring aspect (object, issue) in a story; can also be two binary elements in a piece of writing (e.g., bad versus good). A recurring salient thematic element, especially a dominant idea or central theme.
Narrative: a collection of events featured in a story that are placed in a certain order and recounted to tell a story. The story may or may not be true, and the events are placed in a specific order.
Narrator: the person or character who tells and explains a story; the person who says the words that are heard as part of a story; the person describing what is happening in a story; a person who provides the narration for something.
Personification: attributing human characteristics to something that is not human (a thing, an animal, or an abstraction).
Plot: a the direction of a story's main events and incidents and how they relate to one another.
Point of View (POV): the angle from which a story is told or narrated. Point of view can be first person, objective, limited omniscient, or omniscient. First person: the narrator is either a character in the story or an observer. Objective: the narrator knows (or seems to know) no more than the reader. Limited omniscient: the narrator knows some things about the characters, but not everything. Omniscient: the narrator knows everything about the characters.
Protagonist: the principal or main character in a literary work.
Recognition: the point at which a character acknowledges his or her situation for what it really is; the act of knowing who or what someone or something is because of previous knowledge or experience.
Resolution: the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict or problem; the act of resolving something.
Reversal: the point in the plot at which the action turns in an unexpected direction; usually involves the protagonist.
Rising Action: the set of conflicts in a story that lead up to the climax.
Round Character: a character in a story who is complex, dynamic, and maybe even contradictory; a round character is the opposite of a flat character. A round character's personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
Setting: the time, place, and conditions in which the action of a story takes place and which establish its context.
Subject: the main topic of a piece of writing; what a story is about. A subject can be found in a sentence, a paragraph, an essay, or a book.
Subplot: a subordinate plot in fiction that coexists with the main plot.
Symbol: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance, especially a visible sign of something invisible; an object or act representing something in the unconscious mind that has been repressed.
Syntax: the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses) in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. The organization of these words and phrases creates prose, verse, and dialogue.
Tale: a story about imaginary events; an exciting or dramatic story; a story about someone's actual experiences; an exciting story that may not be completely true.
Tone: a particular pitch or change of pitch constituting an element in the intonation of a phrase or sentence; the style or manner of expression in speaking or writing.
Tragic Hero/Tragic Figure: a protagonist whose story comes to an unhappy end due to his or her own behavior and character flaws.
Understatement: saying that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
Writing Style: the ways in which an author chooses to write words for his or her readers, including how he or she arranges sentences, paragraphs, dialogue, and verse. Style also refers to how the author develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques.
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