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This guide explores the essential elements of fiction and nonfiction, enriching your understanding of storytelling. Discover key terms such as setting, plot, characters, and themes. Learn how point of view influences narrative perspective and the role of mood and author's style in nonfiction writing. The differences between short stories, novels, novellas, and historical fiction are also covered, highlighting subplots and the author's intent. Ideal for students and literature enthusiasts seeking to deepen their literacy skills.
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Literature Terms Fall 2012 Mrs. Johnson
Elements of Fiction • Setting: the ___________ and __________ where a story takes place • Plot: the ___________ of __________ that take you through a story (see plot diagram)
Elements of Fiction • Characters: the ___________ or __________ that take part in the story’s action. • Character traits: the ___________ that can affect a character’s own ____________, ____________, and ____________.
Elements of Fiction • Point of View: the _____________ from which a story is told. • First-person PoV: the story is told from the _____________ of a character ____ the story. • Third-person PoV: the story is told from the perspective of a narrator__________ the story.
Elements of Fiction • Theme: a _______________________ that a story conveys to its readers. • ex., coming of age, love, resilience, etc.
Alas, we stopped on our miles-long trek down the beach. I lent my sister my knit cap to guard her head from the frigid wind. Mom and Dad asked us to stop to take a photograph of the beautiful scenery behind us. Suddenly, I caught a whiff of something I couldn’t quite place. It was inescapable!
4 Types of Fiction • Short Stories: ________ works of fiction made up of __________, character, ____________, point of view, and __________. Usually have _____ main conflict. • Novels: __________ works of fiction. Contain the same elements as short stories, but also contain subplots. • Subplots: _______________, related stories and conflicts.
4 Types of Fiction • Novellas: _________ than novels; ____________ than short stories. • Historical Fiction: literature that draws on ________ __________ and _________ to tell invented stories.
Elements of Nonfiction • Nonfiction pieces are different from fiction because: • They only include _________ people, events, or ideas. • They are narrated from the point of view of the _____________, who is a real person.
Elements of Nonfiction • Things that can affect the outcome of nonfiction writing are mood and author’s style. • Mood: the overall __________that the work evokes in the reader. • Shaped by the ___________ the author chooses to include.
Ex. Two reporters interviewed this Chihuahua last Halloween. One writer might emphasize the injustice the dog faced, creating a profile with a sad or angry mood. The other writer might emphasize how the dealt successfully with the injustice of being dressed up like a cheap food product and describe his satisfaction with his life as a pampered pooch. That profile might have a happy mood.
Elements of Nonfiction • Author’s style: every feature of a writer’s use of _____________, such as ___________, language, and methods of _______________.
3 Purposes of Nonfiction • To Persuade: usually ___________and editorials; written to ____________ an audience of a certain ___________ or ___________. • To Inform: usually articles, reference books, historical essays, and __________ _________; present _____________ and information.
3 Purposes of Nonfiction • To Entertain: usually biographies, autobiographies, and travel narratives are written for the ___________ of the audience. ***REMEMBER: A piece of nonfiction may have ____________ ___________, not just one!
