FICTION

• Fiction is subjective and evocative
• Poems can capture feelings or images to perfection
• Fictional text is more personal
• Both fiction and non-fiction can be subjected to to analysis and interpretation
• Fiction conveys meaning INDIRECTLY
• The three major genres are novels, poetry, and drama
• Fiction is dependent on the feeling, perception, and imagination of readers
• The ten types of fiction are: Commercial, literary, mystery, romance, women's, science, western, horror, suspense or thriller, and young adult
• Commercial fiction is a genre of fiction that is intended for a general audience and is written for profit.
• Literary fiction appeals to a smaller, intellectually adventurous audience
• Mystery usually focuses on crime, usually murder and the climax is usually at the end
• Romance is a huge category that aimed at diverting and entertaining women, Have easy to follow formula
• Women's fiction constitute to the biggest book-buying segment and focuses on relationship with one or more strong female protagonist
• Science Fiction depicts distant worlds and futuristic technology. It whirls the readers far away from now and provoke contemplation of contemporary issues,
• Western is about life on america's post- civil war and involves conflict between cowboys and outlaws
• Horror is filled with gut-wrenching fear and the intention is to frighten the reader.
• Suspense or Thriller is a tense, exciting and often sensational. Delivers the story with sustained tension, surprise or impending doom. It is dominated by action with threat as constant
• Young adult- Any type of novels with protagonist aging from 12-16 concerns of teenager
• Conflict is the clash of action, ideas or will
• Protagonist is the central character in a conflict
• Antagonist is any force against the protagonist
• Mystery is the unusual set of circumstances which the readers crave an explanation
• Dilemma is a position which one must choose from two undesirable actions
• Suprise ending is a sudden, unexpected turn or twist and furnishes meaning illumination
• Happy ending is more common on commercial fiction
• Unhappy ending is more common on literary fiction because it mirrors real life
• type of ending: surprise, happy, sad, indeterminate
• Indeterminate ending there is no definitive conclusions reached but need not to be in terms
• Artistic unity- nothing in the story should be irrelevant and does not advance the intention of the story
• Plot manipulation is the unjustified turn in the plot by the situation or characters
• Dues Ex Machina is the latin for God of Machine, rescued by a god in the last minute
• Chance is the occurrence of an event that has no apparent cause
• Coincidence is the chance of two events that may have peculiar correspondence
• Direct presentation- readers are told straight out what the character is like.
• Indirect presentation- the author shows us the character through their actions
• Principles of characterisation:

  1. Characters are consistent in their behavior
  2. Characters word and action spring from motivation
  3. Characters must be plausible or life like
• Types of character are: Flat, round, stock, static, and dynamic
• Flat characters usually have one or two predominant traits
• Round characters are complex and many sided or three-dimensional quality
• Stock characters are the type of characters that stereotyped figures that occur so often in fiction