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REALISTIC FICTION, important to, Introduction, that occur often in -…

- - - - to stay alive
  - - - realistic traits
      - are not personified
  - - - depicting the funny side of life
  - - - perseverance
        
        Conflict
        
        person-against-self
      - sportsmanship
      - game description
  - - - family matters
      - relationships with others
- - - - develop detailed descriptions
        of the setting
  - - - true to real life
- - - - Round
        
        The main character
        
        fully developed and multifaceted
      - Flat
        
        not a well developed
      - Static
        
        stay the same in the story.
        
        can be round or flat characters who do not change
      - Foil
        
        opposite personality of the main character
      - Dynamic
        
        changes during the story
      - ≠
        
        Protagonist
        
        is involver in a
        
        conflict
        
        Antagonist
        
        opposing force in the
  - - - season
      - weather
      - time period
      - location
  - - - Person-against-self
        
        is the protagonist and the antagonist
        
        must work out relationships with others, feelings and problems
      - Person-against-person
        
        is in direct conflict with another person.
        
        the main character
      - Person-against-hature
        
        has to fight nature.
      - Person-against-society
        
        must figure out how to overcome the pressures of the society in which lives
  - - - "the sequence of events set in motion by a problem that begins the action or causes conflict"
        
        Cornett (1999)
    - - Believable
      - Possible
      - Easly understood
      - fast-paced
      - moving to resolving the conflict
    - - Progressive plot
        
        begins with one event
        
        which form a chain
        
        with each event leading to the next
        
        until
        
        resolves the conflict
      - Episodic plot
        
        author tells short stories
        
        related by setting or characters
    - - Flashbacks
        
        a period before
        the actual story
        
        fill in the background information
      - Foreshadowing
        
        drop hints about how the problem will be solve
  - - - Lukens (1999)
    - - to
        
        be loved
        
        belong
        
        achieve
        
        be secure
        
        know
    - - depends on
        
        a personal response
        
        each reader
        
        brings its personal meaning
        
        is a life-to-text connection
  - - - the author
        
        will use
        
        sentence structure
        
        word choices
        
        patterns
        
        arrangements to
        
        communicate
        
        set the story's tone
        
        can intend the story to be
        
        humorous
        
        sad
        
        serious
        
        or any combination of these
        
        slapstick
  - - - of
        
        settings
        
        characters
        
        events
      - keeps readers involved in the story
  - - - when the story is
        
        written from the first-person
        
        tells the story
        
        the main character
        
        use the word "I"
        
        written from the third-person
        
        central observer (omnisient)
        
        relates
        
        details
        
        actions
        
        thoughts
        
        of characters
        
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        feelings
        
        storyteller's perspective
        
        uses pronouns "he," "she," and "they"
  - - - similes
        
        comparisons that
        make use of "like" or "as."
      - metaphor
        
        compares two unlike things directly without using like or as