CRWR 200 Quiz 1 UPDATED Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Something made up
- Something fake made to seem real
What can fiction reveal? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Fiction can reveal truths that reality
obscures
What sustains/supports fiction? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- A term coined by poet/philosopher
Samuel T Coleridge
- Your template should be loose enough to allow the reader to "imagine"
- Give's the writer the permission lie
Formal definition of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The examination of what people do
and why they do.
What does a reader care about in fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The human side of the
story
- What the characters learn and how this affects them
What did Aristotle say about fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A whole has a beginning,
middle, and end
The classical narrative paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Exposition/Introduction
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
, - Resolution
(Transformation occurs between the inciting incident and the resolution)
Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- The major character in a story
- Has something at stake/something they are struggling with
- Often change/grow/evolve throughout the story
Catalytic event/inciting incident - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Before this, everything is
peaceful
- Something happens that changes the normal course of the protagonists life
- Protagonist is forced to do something
Part 1 of conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The protagonists struggle towards a goal
Part 2 of conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An antagonistic force
Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The adversary of the protagonist
- Doesn't necessarily have to be a super villain
What does the climax cause - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Protagonist undergoes change/they
learn something
- If not, the reader will feel a sense of discovery
- There must be a reason for the journey
Six elements of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Character
2. Setting
3. Time
4. Language
5. Theme
6. Imagery/Symbolism
and CORRECT Answers
Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Something made up
- Something fake made to seem real
What can fiction reveal? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Fiction can reveal truths that reality
obscures
What sustains/supports fiction? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- A term coined by poet/philosopher
Samuel T Coleridge
- Your template should be loose enough to allow the reader to "imagine"
- Give's the writer the permission lie
Formal definition of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The examination of what people do
and why they do.
What does a reader care about in fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The human side of the
story
- What the characters learn and how this affects them
What did Aristotle say about fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A whole has a beginning,
middle, and end
The classical narrative paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Exposition/Introduction
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
, - Resolution
(Transformation occurs between the inciting incident and the resolution)
Protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- The major character in a story
- Has something at stake/something they are struggling with
- Often change/grow/evolve throughout the story
Catalytic event/inciting incident - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Before this, everything is
peaceful
- Something happens that changes the normal course of the protagonists life
- Protagonist is forced to do something
Part 1 of conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The protagonists struggle towards a goal
Part 2 of conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An antagonistic force
Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The adversary of the protagonist
- Doesn't necessarily have to be a super villain
What does the climax cause - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Protagonist undergoes change/they
learn something
- If not, the reader will feel a sense of discovery
- There must be a reason for the journey
Six elements of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. Character
2. Setting
3. Time
4. Language
5. Theme
6. Imagery/Symbolism
