Fiction

Elements of Fiction

A fiction is a story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real poople and facts

A. Setting is the time and location that a story takes place. It also includes:

1) place-What is the geographical location? Mountains, forest, desat?

2) time-What is its historical period, time of day, or year?

3) weather conditions-Is it rainy, sunary, Mormy, etc?

4) social conditions - What is the daily life of the character's like? Does the story contain local colour (writing that focuses on

the speech, dress, manneriams, customs, etc, of a particular place)? 5) mood or atmosphere - What feeling is created in the story? Sad, happy, scary?

In the beginning of the story, the author creates an atmosphere of the story. Hence, the night was warm and soft the house was quiet.

Character is a person or other being in a narrative. The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person By

There are two kinds of characters:

1) Protagonist. It is the center in the story

2) Antagonist. It is the opposition or enemy of the main character.

Characteristics of a character can be revealed through:

Characterization is a description of the personality of the characters in the fiction. C.

physical appearance

what the character says, thinks, feels, and does or does not do

what other characters say about him/her

Going back, the story centered on the girt. From reading, we can tell of the girl's innocence based on how the author described her.

The following describes the girl as being innocent:

she exaggerates his illness just like any child (action taken by the character) "people took years to die..." (words spoken by the character)

The whole of paragraph 10 contains words spoken by the character revealing her innocence. D. Plot consists of the series of events with a beginning, middle, and ending

Below are the essential parts of the plot.

1) Exposition. It is the beginning of the story where the characters are revealed and the setting is described.

2) Rising action. It is where the conflict or problem begins.

3) Climax. It is the most interesting part whether the conflict/problem will be solved or not.

4) Falling Action. It is where the problerns/complications start to fall.

5) Resolution. It is the final outcome of events in the story. Endings could be happy, sad, or hanging. E. Point of View (POV). It is the angle from which the story is told. An author chooses from a perspective of a character to achieve its

purpose.

1) First Person-The story is told by the protagonist. Speaker uses the pronouns "I", "me", "we". The readers experience the story through this person's eyes. The reader only knows what the

speaker knows and feels.

2) Second Person-The story is told by a narrator. The speaker uses pronouns "you", "your", and "yours", 3) Third Person -The story is told by a narrator who sees all of the action; speaker uses the pronouns "he", "she", "it", "they", "his", "hers", "its", and "theirs". This person may be a character in the story.

There are several types of third person POV: Limited-The narrator looks at all actions through the eyes of a single character, readers only see what the narrator secs. It uses the pronoun he, she, or they. be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of

Example: The Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to course, his hopes hadn't been high, they'd never given him a real present, left alone a cake but to ignore it completely... Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JKRowling

In the above example, the person narrating is not an active participant in the events. The narrator exists, observes, and reports the events of the story. The narrator knows what a single character knows in the story. Omniscient The narrator knows and sees everything, and can move from one character's mind to another. The narrator is

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Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" are matrimony, love, friendship, and affection. The whole narrative revolves around the major theme of matrimony. Its minor themes are love, friendship, affectation etc.

Techniques and Literary Devices

In literature, any technique used to help the author achieve his or her purpose is called a literary device. Typically, these devices are used for an aesthetic purpose-that is, they're intended to make the piece more beautiful. However, it's a very broad term and isn't strictly limited to this meaning.

1. Foreshadowing-a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. There are various ways to create foreshadowing

2. Symbolism and Motif Symbolism-as a literary device, is when you use an object, an action, an event, a place, a person, or a spoken word in your writing to signify new ideas and qualities by giving them an added meaning-usually to represent an abstract idea that is different from their literal senie.

For example, think about emotions or thoughts that come to mind when you see the following

Flowers (represent nature, birth, growth, femininity, beauty) Lightning bolt (represents speed, strength, power, electricity)

Spider web (represents entanglement, entrapment, mystery)

While a symbol might occur once in literature to signify an idea or an emotion, a motif can be an element or idea that repeats throughout that piece of literature. It is closely related to a theme but is more of a supporting role to the theme than a theme itself. It is within the pattern of repetition that the power and impact of a motif are found. A motif could, in fact, be expressed by a collection of related symbols.

3. Tone/Mood-Tone and Mood are literary elements integrated in literary works. Identifying the tone and mood in literature is an important clue to discover the literary's theme. Considering how the author creates a tone and mood helps the reader understand and appreciate the author's style. Tone is a manner, a feeling or atmosphere the author has meant to set in the story, or towards a subject. It can also be considered as the attitude or feeling of the writer towards a subject. The tone can be revealed by the author's choice of words and details. The

author may use a negative or positive tone for his work. Some possible adjectives to describe a tone, are xeriousness,

bitterness, joyful, humorous, anmusing, angry, ironic, suspicious, and many more.

Mood is the feeling you get while reading a story. This could be happiness, sadness, darkness, anger, suspicion, loneliness, or even excitement. You can think of mood at the atmosphere of the story.

The Five Narrative Modes of Fiction

Stories are not hard to tell, but writing stories involves creating structure.

Experienced writers understand that structure, in the form of the five narrative modes of fiction, intimately. These narrative modes of fiction are action, dialogue, thought, description, and exposition.

1. Description. Description sets the mood and the scene and provides an explanation. It gives the details about some place, person or thing. It should serve the story and be a mechanism for immersing readers in the fictional world the characters inhabit. The challenge is to avoid over-describing.

2. Action. Readers are engaged and remain engaged when something happens to the fictional characters. The action in the story moves it forward. Action drives the are of the story and reveals information about the characters. It is something that happens and can include dialogue, gestures, and other activities.

3. Dialogue. Dialogue is spoken action. It is conversation between characters that can also help to evolve the characters. 4. Thought. A character's thoughts might be simply thoughts. But a character could talk to himself in his head, calling himself

names, for example, for the foolish risks he took or giving himself a pep talk. 5. Exposition. Exposition is used to provide details about characters or the story. It is used in the beginning and during transitions, for instance to inform readers about passage of time, change of place or mood, or change in the focus character. It tells, rather than shows, readers about important elements of the story or characters.