Answer the following questions.
1. What ideas does this movie trailer provoke in
you?
2. Did the trailer leave you with any specific
questions or mysteries?
3. What unique qualities, if any, did the trailer
showcase?
What is Fiction?
Fiction generally includes works which
are purely products of the writer’s
imagination. It pertains to any account
involving people and events that are
perceived to be unreal for they are just
invented by a writer’s creative mind.
Elements
of
Fiction
Setting
This element includes the place and the time of
the actions that transpire in a story.
2. Character/s
➢Focus
➢Characterization
➢Character Development
FOCUS
Protagonist
Principal or lead character; commonly referred to
as the “hero”
Antagonist
Known as the villain; the role is mainly to oppose or
to challenge the main character; it can also be in
other forms like death, defeat, illness etc.
Character Development
The change in a characters, behavior, attitude
or personality as the story goes.
STATIC
Elements
of
Fiction
DYNAMIC
ROUND
Elements
of
FLAT
Fiction
3. Point of View
It refers to the vantage point as to how the
story unfolds. Thus, it mainly relates as to the
way how the story is told or narrated.
The third-person perspective is categorized
according to the knowledge available to the
narrator:
Third-Person Omniscient
The narrator has knowledge of all times, people,
places and events, including all characters’
thoughts.
Third Person Limited
The narrator may know absolutely everything
about a single character and every piece of
knowledge in that character’s mind, but the
narrator’s knowledge is “limited” to that
character
Plot
This refers to the flow and sequence of events in
a story.
Exposition
It is the background information on the characters and
setting explained at the beginning of the story. The
EXPOSITION will often have information about events
that happened before the story began. The
EXPOSITION is often the very first part of the PLOT.
Rising action
The rising action of a story is the section of the plot
leading up to the climax, in which the tension
stemming from the story's central conflict grows
through successive plot developments.
Climax
Climax is the highest point of tension or drama in
a narratives’ plot. Often, climax is also when the main
problem of the story is faced and solved by the
main character or protagonist.
Falling action
The consequences of characters actions and choices
beginning to show
Resolution
The resolution is the final literary stage in a story's plot
structure.
Conflict
This is the element of fiction which refers to the
opposition of forces that may set forth the problems,
issues, and challenges of various forms and sources
that the main character needs to face and to deal with.
Examples of this are man vs. himself, man vs. man,
man vs. society, man vs. culture, and man vs. nature.
Moral
Is the lesson from the story
