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test elements of a novel
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- Stream of consciousness
- A narrative point of view the presents the actual thoughts going on inside the character's mind
- Foil
- A character that serves as contrast to another. Often it is a minor character who functions as the foil to bring out specific traits of a major character
- Foreshadowing
- A writing technique that gives readers clues about events that will happen later in the story.
- point of view: limited
- The point of view in which the story is told from the viewpoint of one character who can see only a part of the whole story
- Point of view: Omniscient
- The point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story and presents the thoughts of all the characters involved
- Resolution
- The conclusion of the story. The resolution includes the story's action after the climax until the end of a story
- Character development
- The ways in which a novelist shows how a character changes as a result of experiencing a sequence of events over an extensive period of time
- Crisis
- A small peak of dramatic tension that functions within a chapter in the way that the more dramatic climax functions in the novel plot as a whole
- Subplot
- a secondary story line involving secondary characters that parallels or contrasts with the main plot involving the central characters
- Rising Action
- The part of the story including exposition, in which the tension rises. Rising action builds to its highest point of tension at the story's climax
- Complication
- Any obsticle that increases the tension of the story.
- Point of view
- The perspective from which a story is told
- Tone
- The clues in a story that suggest the writer's (or narrator's) own attitude toward the elements of his or her own story
- Multiple Point of view
- A narrative technique in which the novel's storyline is told by more than one character in the plot. The narration shifts back and forth between different characters' limited points of view
- Irony
- A Particular tone created when the speker intends a meaning that is oppisite to the words e or she says.
- Theme
- The story's main ideas- the "message" that the author intends to communicate by telling the story. themes are often universial truths that are suggested by the specifics of the story
- In Media Res
- A latin term- meaning "in the midst of things" - That describes a plot that starts at a moment of high action in the middle of the story and provides the reader with necessary background information later on
- Conflict
- The central source of thensin and drama in the story. Conflict is also sometimes referred to as the story problem
- Genre
- Any of a number of traditional forms of the novel that are categorized by a particular treatment of characters, settings, plot, or style
- Characterization
- The methods a writer uses to communicate information about characters to readers
- serial plotting
- the technigue that creates suspence by telling the plot in a series of unsolved chapters with "cliffhanger" endings. serial plotting keeps the reader reading ahead to find out what will happen next.
- Exposition
- Background material about the characters, setting, and dramatic situation with which the author introduces the essentialsof the story to the reader
- Flashback
- A dramatic scene that is presented out of chronological plot sequence. It takes the reader back to an earlier time than the present action of the novel
- Plot
- The arrangement of story events that defines a novel's structure- it's "skeleton"
- Climax
- The moment when the action come to its highest point of dramatic conflict. Most often, the climax occurs before the end of the story.
- Symbol
- An image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea(s) beyond its literal meaning
- Parallel Plotting
- The technique of presenting more than one story line to the reader at the same time