The document summarizes key elements of fiction, including setting, characters, plot, style, point of view, theme, and author's purpose. It defines main characters like protagonists and antagonists. It explains the five parts of plot: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It also defines literary devices like foreshadowing and flashback, as well as points of view. Finally, it discusses theme as the message or moral of the story, and author's purpose for writing.
The document summarizes key elements of fiction, including setting, characters, plot, style, point of view, theme, and author's purpose. It defines main characters like protagonists and antagonists. It explains the five parts of plot: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It also defines literary devices like foreshadowing and flashback, as well as points of view. Finally, it discusses theme as the message or moral of the story, and author's purpose for writing.
The document summarizes key elements of fiction, including setting, characters, plot, style, point of view, theme, and author's purpose. It defines main characters like protagonists and antagonists. It explains the five parts of plot: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It also defines literary devices like foreshadowing and flashback, as well as points of view. Finally, it discusses theme as the message or moral of the story, and author's purpose for writing.
The document summarizes key elements of fiction, including setting, characters, plot, style, point of view, theme, and author's purpose. It defines main characters like protagonists and antagonists. It explains the five parts of plot: introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It also defines literary devices like foreshadowing and flashback, as well as points of view. Finally, it discusses theme as the message or moral of the story, and author's purpose for writing.
• Integral- settings are key to a story, it affects
the plot
• Background- settings are simply a backdrop
for the action -Character- • Traits- personal qualities of a Main Characters- these characters play a major role in the story character • Protagonist- The main character in a story, around Example: friendly, suspicious, selfish, whom the events of the story’s rude depressed. Developed through plot revolve. a character’s speech, actions, or • Antagonist- A character or thoughts group of characters that represent opposition to the main character of a story
Minor Characters- these characters play a small role
in the story Plot- What happens in the story, the nuts and bolts Five Parts of plot • 1.Introduction- The Beginning, Characters, Setting & Problem laid out • 2.Rising Action- Complications arise with the problem, The Plot Thickens! • 3.Climax- Highest point of interest/suspense, a.k.a. the Turning Point, the outcome is decided • 4. Falling Actions- events that follow the climax and end in resolution • 5.Resolution- The ending, loose ends are tied up, everything comes together • Elements of Fiction • A – Characters – who is in the story • B – Setting – where and when the story takes place • C –Conflict – problem • D – Rising Action – story gets better (most of plot fits here) • E – Climax – Highest point of interest in the story • F – Falling Action – events that follow the climax and end in resolution • G – Resolution – solution to the problem Plot Continued • Conflict- The problem, there are four different types, a story may have more than one.
– 1. Character v. Character – External Conflict
– 2. Character v. Nature – External Conflict – 3. Character v. Society – External Conflict – 4. Character v. Self – Internal Conflict Style- How the author writes, the techniques they use to write • Foreshadowing- A hint to the future, a change in setting Point of View (POV)- Who is telling the story, three different types
• Flashback- A brief return to the • First Person- Told by someone IN the
past, a change in setting story, uses “I” and “me” • Third Person Limited- Told by a narrator, OUTSIDE the story, the • Suspense- A feeling of tension narrator only knows thoughts of one character, uses the pronouns “he”, the author creates “she”, and “they” • Third Person Omniscient- Told by a narrator OUTSIDE the story, the narrator knows what all characters are thinking, narrator is all knowing (om=all), uses the pronouns “he”, “she”, or “they” Theme- • The message about life that author is trying to express (moral) it is a statement •complete thought, not one word! “Love” is a message, but “love heals all wounds” is a theme Authors Purpose • An author writes for many reasons. An author may give you facts or true information about a subject. Some authors write fiction stories or stories that are not true. They write these stories to entertain you. Other authors may write to persuade or to try to get you to do something.