CRWR 200 Quiz 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What sustains fiction is the idea of? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suspension of disbelief; if
there's some semblance of truth, the reader is going to buy into it
Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔artists use lies to tell the truth, fiction can reveal truths
that reality obscures
the examination of what people do and why they do it
In fiction, as readers we care about... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the human side of the
story; what characters learn and how this affects them
1 Goal of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔make reader feel what the character is going
through
Who said "a writer must always use the time of a stranger in such a way that he or she feels it
has not been wasted"? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Kurt Vonnegut
Narrative Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔all meaningful communication can be
defined as a form of storytelling, and that humans are naturally storytellers and listeners of
narratives
Who said "A whole has a beginning, middle, and an end" - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Aristotle
Story structure pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔major character in a story
have something at stake, something they're struggling with, they often change or evolve in
some way, the action affects them
, catalytic event (inciting incident) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Before this, everything is
peaceful; something happens that changes the normal course of the protagonist's life
Protagonist is forced to DO SOMETHING
Conflict (rising action) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Conflict part 1: the protagonist's struggle
towards a goal
Conflict part 2: an antagonistic force
Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔adversary; not necessarily human, can be a situation
whatever happens in the climax leads to... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an outcome and a
resolution, the protagonist will have undergone change, he's learned something or if not, the
reader will feel a sense of discovery
what else does the climax lead to? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔meaning to the story
Strong endings... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Revelations should occur more in the reader's
mind rather than on the page
Good endings should suggest thematic ideas without dictating them
What are the 6 elements of fiction? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Character, Setting, Time,
Language, Theme, Images/Symbolism
Character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔what a character wants is what drives the action and
moves the plot forward
Elements of making a strong character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔physical description,
psychological description, dialog, actions, details of the characters life, details that shape the
character (race, age, gender, etc),
what your character wants out of life
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What sustains fiction is the idea of? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Suspension of disbelief; if
there's some semblance of truth, the reader is going to buy into it
Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔artists use lies to tell the truth, fiction can reveal truths
that reality obscures
the examination of what people do and why they do it
In fiction, as readers we care about... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the human side of the
story; what characters learn and how this affects them
1 Goal of fiction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔make reader feel what the character is going
through
Who said "a writer must always use the time of a stranger in such a way that he or she feels it
has not been wasted"? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Kurt Vonnegut
Narrative Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔all meaningful communication can be
defined as a form of storytelling, and that humans are naturally storytellers and listeners of
narratives
Who said "A whole has a beginning, middle, and an end" - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Aristotle
Story structure pyramid - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔
protagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔major character in a story
have something at stake, something they're struggling with, they often change or evolve in
some way, the action affects them
, catalytic event (inciting incident) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Before this, everything is
peaceful; something happens that changes the normal course of the protagonist's life
Protagonist is forced to DO SOMETHING
Conflict (rising action) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Conflict part 1: the protagonist's struggle
towards a goal
Conflict part 2: an antagonistic force
Antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔adversary; not necessarily human, can be a situation
whatever happens in the climax leads to... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔an outcome and a
resolution, the protagonist will have undergone change, he's learned something or if not, the
reader will feel a sense of discovery
what else does the climax lead to? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔meaning to the story
Strong endings... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Revelations should occur more in the reader's
mind rather than on the page
Good endings should suggest thematic ideas without dictating them
What are the 6 elements of fiction? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Character, Setting, Time,
Language, Theme, Images/Symbolism
Character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔what a character wants is what drives the action and
moves the plot forward
Elements of making a strong character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔physical description,
psychological description, dialog, actions, details of the characters life, details that shape the
character (race, age, gender, etc),
what your character wants out of life
