Narrative Fiction: EOC Vocabulary

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Narrative Fiction EOC Vocabulary
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1. Narrative Fiction

• Writing that tells a story.
• Writing drawn from the authors imagination (not
  real).
• Two types Short Story and the Novel

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2. Short Story

• A short work of Narrative Fiction.

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3. The Novel

• A long work of Narrative Fiction.
• Novels are longer than Short Stories.

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4. Prose

• The ordinary form of everyday writing.
• Essays, Short Stories, and Novels are Prose.
• Poetry, Drama, and Songs are not Prose.

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5. Character

• Persons, animals, or things in a story.
• There are many different classifications of
  Characters and characterizations.

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Main Character

• The important character in the story.

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Secondary Character

• Characters other than the Main Character. (ALL
  other characters).

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Indirect Characterization

• We learn about the character from what they do.

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Direct Characterization

• The Author tells us what kind of person the
  character is.

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Flat/Static Characters

• No Change (the character remains the same
  throughout the story)

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Round/Dynamic Characters

• Changes (the character changes or develops as the
  story progresses)

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6. Plot

• The sequence of events in a story.
• What happens in the story?
• A short 3-4 sentence summary that tells about the
  characters and the conflicts they are in.
• Plot Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling
  Action, Resolution

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7. Setting

• The time and place of the action of the story.
• The year, time and place, season, weather, the
  daily life of the characters.

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8. Conflict

• A struggle between two opposing forces or
  characters in the story.
• The fight or problem in the story. (often more
  than one)

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Four types of Conflict

• Person v. Person
• Person v. Nature
• Person v. Society
• Person v. Themselves

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9. Theme

• Central Idea or basic meaning of a literary work.
• An underlying idea that has a lot to do with the
  story.
• The point or moral of the story.
• What is this story saying about people, or life,
  or the world? (one sentence)

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10. Climax

• The point of greatest interest or suspense in the
  story.
• The turning point when the crisis is resolved
  or the decision is made.
• The major (most important) part of the story.

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11. Point-of-View

• The Vantage Point from which a story is told.
• 1st Person
• 2nd Person
• 3rd Person

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1st Person Point-of-View

• Story is told by a character.
• Uses I, me, and we.

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2nd Person Point-of-View

• Gives instruction
• Uses you

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3rd Person Point-of-View

• Story is told by a Narrator. Uses he, she,
  and it.
• 3rd Person Limited Narrator only knows some
  info, or what one person thinks.
• 3rd Person Omniscient Narrator knows everything
  that is happening.

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12. Protagonist

• The Main Character in the story.
• Usually the Hero.

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13. Antagonist

• The Person or Thing in conflict with the
  Protagonist.
• Usually the Villain.

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14. Mood

• The feeling created in the reader by the story.
• The emotional response you feel from reading the
  story.

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15. Tone

• The attitude the Author takes toward his subject.
• The words and details used in the story show the
  authors tone.
• One word description Humorous or Serious,
  Formal or Informal

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16. Irony (Situational)

• A difference between what is expected and what
  really happens.
• A difference between what is said and what is
  really meant.

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Dramatic Irony

• When the reader knows something that the
  Character does not know.

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17. Foreshadowing

• When things happen in the story that give hints
  or clues about what will happen later.
• When the Characters say things that let you know
  what might happen later.

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18. Symbolism

• When an element of the story represents or stands
  for something else.
• A RoseLove
• A SkullDeath
• SpringYouth
• WinterOld Age

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19. Flashback

• When a scene in a story represents something that
  happened before.