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Terms to Know

Learn key terms and concepts in fiction writing like point of view, plot structure, character development, and more. Enhance your literary analysis skills and delve into the world of storytelling.

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Terms to Know

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  1. Terms to Know

  2. Fiction • A text that is not real.

  3. Point of view • Who is telling the story. • 1st Person – Character is speaking. Able to know thoughts and feelings more. • 3rd Person – Narrator is speaking. • Omniscient – Narrator is all knowing • Limited – Narrator knows one character’s thoughts.

  4. Author’s Purpose • Why the author wrote something. • Three types: • To inform • To persuade • To entertain

  5. Summary • A short explanation of a text. • Includes a beginning, middle, and end.

  6. Plot • The events in the story. • Similar to a summary. • Rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

  7. Setting • Where a story takes place

  8. Mood • How the author wants you to feel. • They will use words and phrases to create a feeling in the characters and the reader.

  9. Theme • Moral or lesson of the story.

  10. Character • A person or thing that a story takes place around. • These people help move the story along based off their decisions and thoughts.

  11. Autobiography • A person telling stories and events from their own life.

  12. Fictional Adaptation • A text that is based on a true story. • Characters and events may be changed from the true facts.

  13. Persuasive • Trying to convince someone of something

  14. Rhetorical Fallacies • Arguments that lack reasoning. • Types: • Ad Hominem • Categorical Claims • Exaggeration • Stereotyping

  15. Central Argument • Clear statement of the problem and solution. • Can be shown in different ways. • Cause and Effect • Analogy • Authority

  16. Nonfiction • Text that is real.

  17. Myth • A story that normally includes gods, goddess, and creatures. • Normally tells how something came to be.

  18. Epic Tale • A long poem or story • Includes a hero going on a quest.

  19. Hero • The main character in a myth or legend • Is able to do many things that are extraordinary

  20. Quest • A journey that a hero is sent on.

  21. Conflict • Problem of the story.

  22. Rising Action • The events that build the conflict and lead up to the turning point.

  23. Climax • The conflict’s turning point of the story. • The big excitement!

  24. Falling Action • The events that happen after the climax. • Starts to wrap the story up.

  25. Resolution • The solution or ending of the story

  26. Connections • Comparing and contrasting two things. • Relating two things together.

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