LESSON 5

• FICTION - is literature form of prose , especially short storues and novels
• Key elements of fiction - Character, Setting, Plot, Conflict, Point of View, and Theme
• CHARACTERS - are the people or animals that make things happen in fiction
• FLAT CHARACTERS - do not play important role in the stories. They remained the same throughout the story. often one or two traits only.
• ROUND CHARACTERS- are fully developed characters as opposed to flat characters, , they tend tobe dynamic who undergo changes in the story.
• PROTAGONIST - main character in the story. usually hero at the end of the story. possesses good traits.
• Antagonist - usually bad guy,.oppose tk protagonist
• Setting - Presents the time, place , weather and season. it helps create mood or the general feeling of the story.

  it includes the following:

  1. Time and Place
  2. Sociological, Cultural, Political, Religious
  3. Responsibilities that lead to specific models
• PLOT - sequence of interrelated actions or events that makes up a story. The plot usually follows a particular structure called Freytag's pyramid. Gustav Freytag, A german playwright who lived during 1800s who proposed the pyramid