Quiz(Tomorrow

• Character


  A person, or even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or a piece of literary work
• Protagonist


  • The main character of the story
• Antagonist


  • The character that goes against the protagonist
• Setting


  The time and place where the story happened
• Main elements fiction writers use to develop a story and its Theme


  • Plot
  • Setting
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Symbol
  • Point of View
• Literature is an art and not a science, so it is impossible to specifically quantify any of these elements within any story or to guarantee that each will be present in any given story
• Conflict


  A struggle between two people or things in the story
• Setting might be the most important element in one story and almost nonexistent in another
• Types of conflict


  • Character vs. character
  • Character vs. nature
  • Character vs. society
  • Character vs. supernatural
  • Man vs. self
• You as a reader cannot approach a story deciding to look for a specific element, such as Symbol, as this could blind you to important elements
• Plot


  What got us interested in reading in the first place, the carrot on the string that pulled us through a story as we wanted to see what would happen next
• Plot is rarely the most important element of a good story
• Character vs. character


  The main character has a problem with another character
• Recent fiction and film have deemphasized plot, frequently stressing character or conflict instead
• Two types of setting


  • Physical
  • Chronological
• Character vs. nature


  The main character fights to endure or overcome forces of nature
• Character vs. society


  The main character challenges a law, tradition, or institution
• Shirley Jackson gives virtually no clues as to where or when her story "The Lottery" is set, as she wants the story to be universal, not limited by time or place
• Character vs. supernatural


  The main character resists forces that are not of this world
• Character


  We can evaluate character three ways: what the individual says, what the individual does, and what others say about him or her
• Man vs. self


  The main character struggles with an internal conflict
• Two types of conflict


  • External
  • Internal
• Plot


  The sequence of events that make up a story
• External conflict is more exciting and easier to write than internal conflict
• Theme


  The main idea or message the writer is trying to convey through the story
• Symbol


  Something which means something else, frequently a tangible physical thing which symbolizes something intangible
• The basic point of a story or poem rarely depends solely on understanding a symbol
• Two types of point of view


  • First Person
  • Third Person
• Variations of First Person point of view


  • Protagonist
  • Observer
• Variations of Third Person point of view


  • Omniscient
  • Dramatic
• Theme


  The main idea the writer wants the reader to understand and remember, not just a topic
• Not all stories or poems have an overriding "universal" theme
• Fiction


  Work, specifically a story, that is mainly drawn from the writer's imagination rather than using facts or valid historical information
• Forms of fiction


  • Writings
  • Performances
  • Media programs
  • Role plays
• Literary forms of fiction


  • Short stories
  • Novella
  • Novels
  • Drama
• Fiction


  • Events and circumstances are known to be contrived or invented by the writer
  • Reality is not typically assumed nor expected
• Scholars have agreed that fiction is the name given to work, specifically a story, that is mainly drawn from the writer's imagination rather than using facts or valid historical information
• Subjects in the real world may be utilized as bases for the invention that will be considered in the work
• Fiction


  Can be distinguished from other types of writing by looking at its main purpose - to entertain and to educate at the same time
• We indulge ourselves in the luxury of reading