Memory Game THE ELEMENTS OF STORY TELLINGOnline version Based on the book The Telling and the Tale Narrative Creative Writing by Ana Gabriela Hernández Salazar Protagonist A character who changes during the course of a literary work. The change maybe physical psychological and/or behavioral. The part of a plot that develops the conflict to the point of crisis Plot The order in which events occur according to the time at which they happened in narrative. This order is often changed by the narrator. Theme When a narrative is told by voice that uses the pronoun “she” or “he”. This type of perspective supposedly provides the narrative with considerable objectivity because it establishes a distance between the narration and the character. Falling action Chronological order Round character Third person point of view Setting A term used to refer to the point of greatest tension in the development of a narrative Plot. It is the point at which a crisis is reached (concerning the conflict) and after which at least some degree of resolution is achieved. It is also referred to as a crisis. A relatively brief narrative written in prose usually used to categorize a subgenre of fiction Perspective Stream of consciousness A type of telling using an all-knowing narrator who has total control of the telling and knows everything about all the characters events and situations Antagonist Rising action Point of view The struggle or tension between two or more opposing forces in a narrative. The time and place in which a narrative takes place. It includes references to time and location as well as intangible aspect such as social values norms beliefs and so forth In narratology, the position from which a narrative is told or perceived. This position is always inevitably subjective and can be inferred from choices of language use and context. Conflict Genre A kind of telling in which the narrator presents a story from the perspective of only one character (or, less frequently, two) with access only to what that character says thinks hears and feels A the central or dominating idea or statement about life that is presented either explicitly or implicitly in a literary work. The main character of a literary work A kind of literary character which is immediately familiar and recognizable to readers such as the brave hero, the naïve maiden, the evil stepmother, and so forth Dynamic A character who opposes a protagonist Flat character A term that refers to the structured sequence of events in a narrative The perspective from which a narrative is told A narrative technique that shows how a given character’s mind works by means of reproducing the flow of thought, recollections and sensations of a character. It uses disruptions of time and disjointed images The actions that follow the climax and lead to a resolution of a plot Short story The receiver of a written text considered by some theorists to be a co-author of the text A category into which literary works are classified according to form, technique, and conventions. Examples of modern genre are novel, essay, and short story Reader Limited omniscient point of view A character who presents a single or very limited number of traits these characters are also called one-dimensional characters. Stock character Climax Static character A fictitious being easily visualized by the reader because the writer has provided him or her with a number of qualities and traits; a complex character Omniscient point of view A character who does not experience significant changes within the narrative
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