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Fiction (Final)

This document defines and describes various types of fiction (novel, short story, fable, tale) and their key elements, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, conflict, and theme. It provides descriptions and examples for each element to help analyze fictional works. Types of plots, characters, points of view, and conflicts are defined. Examples of applying these concepts are also given for three short stories.

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Fiction (Final)

This document defines and describes various types of fiction (novel, short story, fable, tale) and their key elements, including plot, characters, setting, point of view, conflict, and theme. It provides descriptions and examples for each element to help analyze fictional works. Types of plots, characters, points of view, and conflicts are defined. Examples of applying these concepts are also given for three short stories.

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The Art of

Fiction
Group 2
Fiction
(from the Latin fictio, which
means a shaping, a counterfeiting)
Is a name for stories not entirely
factual, but at least partially
shaped, made up of imagined.

1. Novel a book-length story in prose. It can focus on
many character and has room to examine their actions
and motivations in greater detail and depth. It can
afford many settings and subplots.
2. Short Story is more than just a sequence of
happenings. It has richness and conciseness of an
excellent lyric poem.
3. Fable is a story, which use animals to convey a moral or
message, sometimes stated at the end or implied.
4. Tale is a story, usually short, that sets forth strange
and wonderful events in more or less bare summary,
without detailed character-drawing.
Elements of
Fiction
Plot
It refers to the sequence of events from the opening to the closing scene.
Exposition the opening portion that provides background information.
Climax the moment of greatest tension form which the outcome of the
story depends.
Resolution or denoument end of the story.
In analyzing the plot, one should make note of the following devices:
Flashbacks is the inverting of the order of narration that is useful when
reference to the past event is essential to the moving forward of the
action of the present.
Foreshadowing aids the plot to make certain become clues or
indicators of future events.
Conflict
It refers to the dramatic struggle between two forces in
a story. Without the conflict, there is no plot.
Interpersonal Conflict
Human vs Human
Human vs Nature
Human vs Society
Interpersonal Conflict
Human vs Self
Plot Diagram
Characters
It refers to the persons inhibiting the story,
and makes it come alive for the reader.
Round character is portrayed with more
depth and complexity and usually
undergoes a change caused by a conflict
experienced in the story.
Flat character exhibits only one
personality trait and remains the same all
throughout the story.
Characters
Dynamic character undergo some type of
change or development in the story, often
because of something that happens to
them.
Static character do not change in the
course of the story.
Protagonist is the main character in the
story.
Antagonist is the character that opposes
the protagonist.


Setting
It refers to the storys time and place.
It includes the physical environment of
a story besides place.
It can prompt characters to act, bring
them to realization or cause them to
reveal their inmost natures.
Setting
the geographical location
example: London, Cairo, Manila
the time period
example: 1865, during WW2, today
the socio-economic characteristics of the
location
example: wealthy suburbs
the specific building, room and so forth
example: a school, a park, a classroom
Point of View
It refers to the vantage point or the perspective from which the story is told.
First Person Point of View the narrator uses I and may either be actively
involved or is just a minor character in the events of the story.
Third Person Point of View the narrator is a non-participant.
1. Omniscient Point of View the narrator sees everything and enters
into all minds of the characters.
2. Third Person Limited the narrator uses the perspective of only one
character and sees everything through him or her.
3. Objective Point of View the narrator doesnt enter the mind of any
character but describes events from the outside.
Scenic Point of View the narrator tells us what people say and how they
look but leaves us to infer their thoughts and feelings.
Theme
It refers to the general meaning of insight that the
story reveals.
It is the central idea or central message of the story.
It may not contain a moral or message.
In literary fiction, the theme is seldom obvious
unlike a fable which states or implies it in the end.
A story normally possesses one idea (theme) but this
doesnt mean that it cannot have other meanings.
The Dog-Eaters
by Leoncio P. Deriada
Plot:
Exposition:
Climax:
Resolution:
Characters: Mariana, Victor
Setting:
Point of View: Omniscient Point of View
Theme:
Magnificence
by Estrella Alfon
Plot:
Exposition:
Climax:
Resolution:
Characters:
Setting:
Point of View:
Theme:

I Am One of the Mountain People
by Macario D. Tiu
Plot:
Exposition:
Climax:
Resolution:
Characters:
Setting:
Point of View: First Person Point of View
Theme:

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