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 Chronological order Protagonist Stream of consciousness 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. Omniscient point of view Falling action 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 Perspective 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 Flat character The perspective from which a narrative is told Climax 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 Genre Dynamic The receiver of a written text considered by some theorists to be a co-author of the text Stock character 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 Antagonist A character who changes during the course of a literary work. The change maybe physical psychological and/or behavioral. The main character of a literary work 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 The part of a plot that develops the conflict to the point of crisis A character who does not experience significant changes within the narrative A character who presents a single or very limited number of traits these characters are also called one-dimensional characters. A category into which literary works are classified according to form, technique, and conventions. Examples of modern genre are novel, essay, and short story 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. A relatively brief narrative written in prose usually used to categorize a subgenre of fiction Point of view Reader Rising action Limited omniscient point of view 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 Third person point of view A the central or dominating idea or statement about life that is presented either explicitly or implicitly in a literary work. Round character Short story Plot A term that refers to the structured sequence of events in a narrative Theme Conflict The order in which events occur according to the time at which they happened in narrative. This order is often changed by the narrator. A character who opposes a protagonist 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. Setting The actions that follow the climax and lead to a resolution of a plot The struggle or tension between two or more opposing forces in a narrative. Static character
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