Friday, 1 March 2019

EF5/6 Literary Terms, part 2

3. Plot - the event of the short story, novel, movie

from the beginning to the end - organized in time, chronological sequence, order of events, what happens

4. conflict - against (prep), problem, disagreement, argument, challenge, fight, tension, violence

conflict drives the story, the energy of the story

vs - versus, against
Canucks vs Blue Jackets
Barcelona vs Real Madrid
Brazil vs Canada

EXTERNAL CONFLICTS
*person vs person
Rollo stabbed Mike
husband and wife
two kids arguing
customer and salesperson
two boxers

person vs society
Malala Yousafzei, Shakila Zareen
Viola Desmond and Rosa Parks
cultural differences - language, lonely, teaching style

person vs nature
climate change, global warming, wildfire, drought, flooding, earthquake, snow, tsumani, monsoon, hurricane, typhoon, volcano
wild animals - bear, cougar, coyote

person vs technology
computers
GMO - genetically modified organism

person vs supernatural
supernatural - ghosts, zombies, spirits, devils, aliens

spooked, scared

INTERNAL CONFLICT
person vs herself/himself
psychological problem
something you want to change about yourself

5. narrator - the voice that is telling the story, sometimes it is a character in the story (e.g. Brian Bonner), sometimes it is a voice that is not  character (e.g. the writer's voice) 

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