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Narrative Fiction: EOC Vocabulary

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Narrative Fiction: EOC Vocabulary

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1. Narrative Fiction

• Writing that tells a story.• Writing drawn from the author’s

imagination (not real).• Two types: Short Story and the

Novel

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2. Short Story

• A short work of Narrative Fiction.

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3. The Novel

• A long work of Narrative Fiction.• Novels are longer than Short

Stories.

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4. Prose

• The ordinary form of everyday writing.

• Essays, Short Stories, and Novels are Prose.

• Poetry, Drama, and Songs are not Prose.

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5. Character

• Persons, animals, or things in a story.

• There are many different classifications of Characters and characterizations.

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Main Character

• The important character in the story.

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Secondary Character

• Characters other than the Main Character. (ALL other characters).

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Indirect Characterization

• We learn about the character from what they do.

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Direct Characterization

• The Author tells us what kind of person the character is.

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Flat/Static Characters

• No Change (the character remains the same throughout the story)

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Round/Dynamic Characters

• Changes (the character changes or develops as the story progresses)

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6. Plot

• The sequence of events in a story.• What happens in the story?• A short 3-4 sentence summary that tells

about the characters and the conflicts they are in.

• Plot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

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7. Setting

• The time and place of the action of the story.

• The year, time and place, season, weather, the daily life of the characters.

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8. Conflict

• A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in the story.

• The fight or problem in the story. (often more than one)

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Four types of Conflict

• Person v. Person• Person v. Nature• Person v. Society• Person v. Themselves

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9. Theme

• Central Idea or basic meaning of a literary work.

• An underlying idea that has a lot to do with the story.

• The point or moral of the story.• What is this story saying about

people, or life, or the world? (one sentence)

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10. Climax

• The point of greatest interest or suspense in the story.

• The “turning point”: when the crisis is resolved or the decision is made.

• The major (most important) part of the story.

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11. Point-of-View

• The Vantage Point from which a story is told.

• 1st Person• 2nd Person• 3rd Person

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1st Person Point-of-View

• Story is told by a character.• Uses “I”, “me”, and “we”.

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2nd Person Point-of-View

• Gives instruction• Uses “you”

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3rd Person Point-of-View

• Story is told by a Narrator. Uses “he”, “she”, and “it”.

• 3rd Person Limited – Narrator only knows some info, or what one person thinks.

• 3rd Person Omniscient – Narrator knows everything that is happening.

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12. Protagonist

• The Main Character in the story.• Usually the Hero.

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13. Antagonist

• The Person or Thing in conflict with the Protagonist.

• Usually the Villain.

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14. Mood

• The feeling created in the reader by the story.

• The emotional response you feel from reading the story.

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15. Tone

• The attitude the Author takes toward his subject.

• The words and details used in the story show the author’s tone.

• One word description: Humorous or Serious, Formal or Informal

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16. Irony (Situational)

• A difference between what is expected and what really happens.

• A difference between what is said and what is really meant.

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Dramatic Irony*

• When the reader knows something that the Character does not know.

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17. Foreshadowing

• When things happen in the story that give hints or clues about what will happen later.

• When the Characters say things that let you know what might happen later.

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18. Symbolism

• When an element of the story represents or stands for something else.

• A Rose=Love• A Skull=Death• Spring=Youth• Winter=Old Age

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19. Flashback

• When a scene in a story represents something that happened before.