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CRWR 200 Quiz 1 Exam Study Guide.
Fiction - answer✔- Something made up
- Something fake made to seem real
What can fiction reveal? - answer✔Fiction can reveal truths that reality obscures
What sustains/supports fiction? - answer✔Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief - 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 - answer✔The examination of what people do and why they do.
What does a reader care about in fiction - answer✔The human side of the story
- What the characters learn and how this affects them
What did Aristotle say about fiction - answer✔A whole has a beginning, middle, and end
The classical narrative paradigm - answer✔- Exposition/Introduction
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
- Resolution
(Transformation occurs between the inciting incident and the resolution)
Protagonist - answer✔- The major character in a story
- Has something at stake/something they are struggling with
- Often change/grow/evolve throughout the story
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Catalytic event/inciting incident - 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 - answer✔The protagonists struggle towards a goal
Part 2 of conflict - answer✔An antagonistic force
Antagonist - answer✔The adversary of the protagonist
- Doesn't necessarily have to be a super villain
What does the climax cause - 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 - answer✔1. Character
2. Setting
3. Time
4. Language
5. Theme
6. Imagery/Symbolism
Character - answer✔- A person in a narrative
- What a character wants, drives the action/moves the plot forward
Types of characters in fiction - answer✔- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Secondary characters
How to develop characters - answer✔- Character journal
- Present characters by including physical/psychological description, and also through
dialogue and action
Setting - answer✔- The atmosphere that a character operates in
Two ways of treating time in fiction - answer✔Summary and scence
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11/15/2024 11:57 AM
CRWR 200 Quiz 1 Exam Study Guide.
Fiction - answer✔- Something made up
- Something fake made to seem real
What can fiction reveal? - answer✔Fiction can reveal truths that reality obscures
What sustains/supports fiction? - answer✔Suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief - 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 - answer✔The examination of what people do and why they do.
What does a reader care about in fiction - answer✔The human side of the story
- What the characters learn and how this affects them
What did Aristotle say about fiction - answer✔A whole has a beginning, middle, and end
The classical narrative paradigm - answer✔- Exposition/Introduction
- Inciting incident
- Rising action
- Climax
- Falling action
- Resolution
(Transformation occurs between the inciting incident and the resolution)
Protagonist - answer✔- The major character in a story
- Has something at stake/something they are struggling with
- Often change/grow/evolve throughout the story
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Catalytic event/inciting incident - 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 - answer✔The protagonists struggle towards a goal
Part 2 of conflict - answer✔An antagonistic force
Antagonist - answer✔The adversary of the protagonist
- Doesn't necessarily have to be a super villain
What does the climax cause - 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 - answer✔1. Character
2. Setting
3. Time
4. Language
5. Theme
6. Imagery/Symbolism
Character - answer✔- A person in a narrative
- What a character wants, drives the action/moves the plot forward
Types of characters in fiction - answer✔- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Secondary characters
How to develop characters - answer✔- Character journal
- Present characters by including physical/psychological description, and also through
dialogue and action
Setting - answer✔- The atmosphere that a character operates in
Two ways of treating time in fiction - answer✔Summary and scence
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