Flashcards

GUIDE TO ANALYZE FICTION

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Flashcards do conjunto (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