Flashcards
GUIDE TO ANALYZE FICTION
Cards in this deck (8)
- 1PLOTWhat is the story about?
What are the series of events in the story?
What is the turning point of the story? - 2SETTINGTime, place and social and historical context
What is the setting in the story?
How does the writer use setting to create a story? - 3CHARACTERSProtagonist, antagonist, secondary characters
What does their dialogues or behavior tell us about their values, beliefs, motives? - 4THEMEThe main idea of the story
Sometimes it is not explicitly revealed
What message or lesson does the writer wish the reader to understand from the story? - 5POINT OF VIEWIt refers to the person who is telling the story
Can be told from the first-person perspective or third-person perspective
Author and narrator are not the same
The third-person omniscient narrator knows everything - 6STYLEStyle refers to the writer´s choice of language and sentence structure
What type of diction does the writer use? Formal? Pompous?
How does it impact you as readers? - 7TONETone refers to the writer´s attitude toward the subject and readers
Is it ironic? Is it humorous?
How does the tone of the story impact your reading? For instance, do you laugh? - 8FIGURATIVE LANGUAGEThe writer uses language to mean something other than its literal meaning
For example, personification, allusion, hyperbole