basic terms:
setting
character
plot
conflict
start reading a work of fiction - get our bearings, thinking about these terms
basic PLOT- story, what happens
PLOTLINE
-any novel, movie, short story, work of fiction
Titanic popular movie
Exposition- setting, major characters
Rising action - developing conflict, getting into the story
Climax - most gripping part of the text, work of fiction, on the edge of your seat
Falling action - story is starting to relax, main events are over, coming back down
Denouement - final ending, curtain come down, close the book
Parasite
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
A Marriage Story
Aurore
theatre - play, live performance, Broadway, student actors- Langara Studio 58
opera - Verdi, high drama
music - Beethoven symphony, like a story is being told
- jazz - solo
SETTING - time and place of a work of fiction
also culture/society, psychology,
CHARACTER - person, animal, thing
a. dynamic - outlook, perspective, inner life
changes
b. static - stays the same
c. round - fully described, fully realized
d. flat
e.f. stereotype/stock character
g. major - essential to the plot, usually be round
h. minor - extra, provide colour, background, supporting, not essential
movies- extras, background actors
i. protagonist - "pro" positive
proactive, prohibition, professional, pro-choice, proposal - good character, the character that we most care about
j. antagonist - "anti" against
antibody, antibiotic, antiracism, antibullying
- bad character, the character that we most hate, don't want them to succeed
when the main character is a bad person, when the protagonist is evil - "antihero" Hannibal, The Joker, John Doe in Seven
Conflict - struggle, fight, friction between two things or people
vs - versus (prep) against
Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers
person vs person -
person vs society/culture -
person vs nature - tsunami, earthquake, cold, rain, cloudy, SADS - seasonal affective depression syndrome, epidemic, bear - hibernate in winter, cougar, raccoon, poisonous snakes, spiders, allergies - anaphylactic shock, need an epipen
person vs technology - internet addiction, computer games, identity theft, internet scams, clone credit card, cyberbullying, GMO - genetically modified organism - animals, food, people
GM foods - tomato, corn, soy
person vs supernatural - ghosts, magical creatures, evil, spirits, zombies, shadow people, sleep paralysis, talking in their sleep, sleepwalking
podcast - Kowabana: scary Japanese stories; Jim Harold's Campfire - true ghost stories
person vs herself/himself - inner conflict, turmoil, denial, hard to accept - RESOLUTION is to accept
EXTERNAL CONFLICTS
person vs person, society/culture, nature, supernatural, technology
INTERNAL CONFLICT
person vs herself/himself
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