CRWR 200 Quiz 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update 2025-2026
What sustains fiction is the idea of? - Answers Suspension of disbelief; if there's some
semblance of truth, the reader is going to buy into it
Fiction - Answers 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... - Answers the human side of the story; what characters
learn and how this affects them
1 Goal of fiction - Answers 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"? - Answers Kurt Vonnegut
Narrative Paradigm - Answers 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" - Answers Aristotle
Story structure pyramid - Answers
protagonist - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers Conflict part 1: the protagonist's struggle towards a goal
Conflict part 2: an antagonistic force
Antagonist - Answers adversary; not necessarily human, can be a situation
whatever happens in the climax leads to... - Answers 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? - Answers meaning to the story
, Strong endings... - Answers 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? - Answers Character, Setting, Time, Language, Theme,
Images/Symbolism
Character - Answers what a character wants is what drives the action and moves the plot
forward
Elements of making a strong character - Answers 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
Setting - Answers atmosphere that character operates in, helps define a story's dimensions and
grounds a story in place, what makes the place unique
setting tell us about the characters and what might happen in the story
Time - Answers Through summary, and through scene
through summary - Answers the reader is asked to picture things generally rather than
specifically
Useful for:
Providing information
Filling in a character's background
Helping the reader understand motivations
Moving through larger periods of time
through scene - Answers critical to fiction(allows reader to experience the story with the
characters)
Using scene allows you to create tension and establish character which you cannot do in
summary
What sustains fiction is the idea of? - Answers Suspension of disbelief; if there's some
semblance of truth, the reader is going to buy into it
Fiction - Answers 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... - Answers the human side of the story; what characters
learn and how this affects them
1 Goal of fiction - Answers 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"? - Answers Kurt Vonnegut
Narrative Paradigm - Answers 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" - Answers Aristotle
Story structure pyramid - Answers
protagonist - Answers 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) - Answers 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) - Answers Conflict part 1: the protagonist's struggle towards a goal
Conflict part 2: an antagonistic force
Antagonist - Answers adversary; not necessarily human, can be a situation
whatever happens in the climax leads to... - Answers 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? - Answers meaning to the story
, Strong endings... - Answers 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? - Answers Character, Setting, Time, Language, Theme,
Images/Symbolism
Character - Answers what a character wants is what drives the action and moves the plot
forward
Elements of making a strong character - Answers 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
Setting - Answers atmosphere that character operates in, helps define a story's dimensions and
grounds a story in place, what makes the place unique
setting tell us about the characters and what might happen in the story
Time - Answers Through summary, and through scene
through summary - Answers the reader is asked to picture things generally rather than
specifically
Useful for:
Providing information
Filling in a character's background
Helping the reader understand motivations
Moving through larger periods of time
through scene - Answers critical to fiction(allows reader to experience the story with the
characters)
Using scene allows you to create tension and establish character which you cannot do in
summary
