Fiction
Terms
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- Dialogue
- The conversation between two or more characters.
- Total Effect
- The total impact or influence that a story has on a reader.
- Characterization
- The ways in which a writer develops a character's thoughts, actions, and dialogue.
- Character
- One of hte people (or an animal) in the story.
- Action
- Everything that happens in a story.
- Moral
- The lesson a story teaches.
- Tone
- The attitude or feeling that comes across in a piece of literature, revealed by the characters, the word choice, and the general writing style. Tone can be serious, funny, satiric,and so forth.
- Antagonist
- The person or force that works against the hero of hte story.
- Point of View
- The angle from which a story is told. The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.
- Mood
- The feeling a piece of literature creates i a reader
- Plot Line
- The planned action or series of events in a story. There are five basic parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
- Plot
- The action that makes up the story, following a plan called the plot line.
- Setting
- The place and the time frame in which a story takes place.
- Theme
- The message about life or human nature that is "hidden" in the story that the writer tells.
- Narrator
- The person or character who actually tells the story, giving background information and filling in details between portions of dialogue.
- Protagonist
- The main character in a story, often a good or heroic type.
- Conflict
- A problem or confrontation between two forces in a story.
- Foil
- The character who serves shallenge to the main character.