Elements Of Fiction
Published on Dec 08, 2015
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THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION
PLOT
THE EVENTS THAT MAKE A STORY
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PLOT THE SERIES OF EVENTS THAT MAKE A STORY
- Exposition: the background info, explains that status quo
- Rising action: starts with a problem, gets more exciting
- Climax: a crisis, must solve the problem, most exciting
- Falling action: story calms down, finds new status quo
- Resolution: new normal is reached, all questions are answered
Example of a plot structure
The three little pigs
Exposition: three pigs, three houses, straw, sticks, and brick, wolf nearby, countryside, Past
Rising action: wolf wants to eat pigs, hide in houses, blows straw house down, blows stick house down
Climax: brick house, boil wolf
Falling action: celebrate victory
Resolution: live happily ever after
CONFLICT
THE PROBLEMS THAT POWER STORIES
TYPES OF CONFLICT
- Person vs person
- Person vs nature
- Person vs society
- Person vs self
PVP
- One or more individuals battling against another person or group
- Example: batman vs penguin
PVN
- An individual or group battles the forces of nature
- Example: titanic passengers vs iceberg
PVS
- An individual battles an organized group such as a the government
- Example: Katniss vs President Snow
- Tip: individuals represent the government.
- Look for uniforms and authority
PVSELF
- An individual battles him or himself
- Example: dieting
- Look for reason vs emotion or instinct
CHARACTER
GETTING TO KNOW EVERYONE
5 WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT A CHARACTER
- What they do
- What they say
- What they look like
- What is said about them
- What the author tells us
INFERENCES
- Use clues (evidence) to make deductions about a character
- Takes practice
POINT OF VIEW
WHO'S TELLING THE STORY AND WHAT THEY KNOW
WHO'S TELLING THE STORY
- First person: someone is telling a story about themself
- Look for a narrator using pronouns I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours
WHO'S TELLING THE STORY
- Second person: someone is telling a story about their audience to their
- audience
- Pronouns: you, your, yours
- Second person isn't used very often
WHO'S TELLING THE STORY
- Third person: someone telling about a third person to an audience
- Pronouns: she, her, him, he, it, they, them, etc
- Used alot
HOW MUCH DOES THEY NARRATOR KNOW
- Narrators:1st, 2nd, or 3rd persons
- Come in 2 varieties: omniscient and limited omniscient
OMNISCIENT NARRATOR
- The omniscient narrator knows everything about a story:
- What the characters are thinking, what has happened before and what will happen next
LIMITED OMNISCIENT NARRATOR
- This narrator knows somethings, but does not know everything.
- Perhaps they do not know some character's thoughts
SETTING
WHERE EVERYTHING HAPPENS
DEFINITION
- THE DESCRIPTION OF WHERE AND WHEN EVENTS TAKE PLACE
- Is much more then a date and location
- The difference between a story in Nepal, today and....
MOOD
IT COMES FROM THE SETTING!
DEFINITION
- The emotional response a story gives a reader
- Driven immediately by the setting, affected by plot and character
- What's the mood of the picture from Nepal.
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SYMBOL
WHEN ONE THING IS REALLY ANOTHER
SYMBOL
- An object or person or event represents an idea
- Example: red octagons= stop
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THEME
THEME
- A statement about life or being human that the text gives
- A reader
EXAMPLES
- Harry Potter: friendship, perserverance
- Star Wars: good and evil
- Ransom of Red Chief: expectations
DON'T CONFUSE WITH
- The "moral" of the story
- A lesson to be learned
COMMON THEMES
- Justice, God/religion, Survival, Insanity
- Personal Fear, Our Human Dark Side, truth
- Family, Suffering, Friendship, Aging, Dying
- True Love, Drive to Explore, Human Frality
- War, Curiosity, Opinions, Finding Hapiness
