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    The document defines key elements of fiction including plot, setting, character motivation, and theme. It explains that plot involves a sequence of events and can follow a classic structure or be episodic. Setting establishes the physical and social context and atmosphere. Character motivation explains characters' actions. Theme conveys the story's central insight.

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    ELEMENTS OF FICTION SAGUINDEL (1)

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    The document defines key elements of fiction including plot, setting, character motivation, and theme. It explains that plot involves a sequence of events and can follow a classic structure or be episodic. Setting establishes the physical and social context and atmosphere. Character motivation explains characters' actions. Theme conveys the story's central insight.

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    1. PLOT is the element that shapes how the events are told in a
    sequence or a pattern.
    2. A type of plot wherein events are chronologically sequence (beginning,
    middle, and end) is called CLASSIC PLOT.
    3. A plot IN MEDIAS RES is one that begins in the middle of the story’s
    action.
    4. A plot device called FLASHBACK is used when what is happening in
    the present explained by recalling an event in the past.
    5. A plot device called FORESHADOWING is used when a hint is
    provided about what will happen later in the narrative.
    6. The part of the plot where the initial stage of things is being described
    is called EXPOSITION.
    7. That which disturbs the initial stage of things is called the plots
    CONFLICT.
    8. Events that increase the intensity of the disturbance comprise the
    RISING ACTION and subsequent complications of the plot.
    9. The turning point of the plot, the point of its highest intensity, is called
    the CLIMAX. This is where a kind of decisive crisis is reached such
    that whatever decision made at this point changes the course of
    events and determines the ending.
    10. FALLING ACTION refers to the unravelling of the consequences
    of the major decision made at the turning point of the plot.
    Sometimes, a new state of things is created, a return to equilibrium as
    ending.
    11. A type of plot that doesn’t follow a typical chronological
    sequence but orders events in a fragmentary way is called EPISODIC
    plot.
    12. The time and space or the physical and social contexts where a
    story takes place is called the SETTING.
    13. The mood or general feeling evoked by the setting is called the
    _ATMOSPHERE.
    14. The narrator is the person or persona (as distinguished from the
    author) who is telling the story. An OMNISCIENT narrator knows and
    reveals everything, including what’s in the mind of the character.
    15. An INTRUSIVE narrator give his/her comments or opinions, in
    contrast to an objective narrator who does not.
    16. An UNRELIABLE narrator cannot be trusted for some reason
    (because he or she is lying, mad, prejudiced, etc.). Narrator tell the
    story using the first, third, or in rare instances, second person.
    17. The feeling hovering over the story is not the only created by the
    setting, but also by the narrator’s attitude toward the characters or
    story that he/she is telling. The narrators attitude sets the TONE of
    the story.
    18. Narrative perspective also called POINT OF VIEW, refers to the
    “eyepiece” or angle from which readers witness the events as told by
    the narrator.
    19. In many stories a godlike, omniscient narrator shows everything,
    but in stories with narrators of LIMITED omniscience, the perspective
    is restricted to one character (the narrator or somebody else), or angle
    to the way that one character sees it.
    20. Characters (human or not) are the movers of the plot.
    Characters can be major or minor, complex or simple, dynamic or
    static. A character’s MOTIVATION explains his/her actions or
    decisions.
    21. A SYMBOL is an object that is literally present and serves a little
    purpose in the story but also seems to have a deeper, layered, or
    figurative meaning.
    22. A SITUATIONAL irony occurs when the opposite of what is
    expected to happen is what actually happens.
    23. A VERBAL irony is created when the intended meaning is the
    opposite of what is stated.
    24. DRAMATIC irony refers to the disjunct between what a
    character knows, and what you as a reader is made to know or
    understand about the story.
    25. The story’s THEME is its critical point , its unique insight about
    its chosen subject.

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