PART 1
I.Characteristics of Fiction
Fiction features ______-invented people who experience a series of events called ______.
It occurs in a time and a place or ______. Setting can be ______or ______.
Fiction is told or ______, from the ______of a character who may or may not be part of the story.
Fiction always includes a ______a ______or an insight about life.
II. Types of Fiction
A ______is a long work of fiction broken up into ______. Features multiple ______, ______, and have more than one ______.
A ______is longer than a short story but ______than a novel.
A ______is a work of fiction brief enough to be read in ______sitting.
III. Characteristics of Nonfiction
______from works of fiction in several ways.
______, events, ______, and ______presented in ______are real, not invented.
______by an author who is a real person.
______is written for a specific ______. It addresses a clear ______or reason for writing.
______, the author’s attitude toward the subject or reader. Displayed through the writer’s ______choice and ______.
IV. Types of Nonfiction
There are ______types of nonfiction that are defined by their purposes.
______ Nonfiction: tells stories of ______events. Examples: ______and ______.
Expository: ______or explains. Examples: ______essays and research reports.
Persuasive: presents reasons and ______to ______the reader to act or think in a certain way. Examples: ______and ______speeches.
Descriptive: uses details related to the senses to create mental images for the reader. Examples: character sketches and scientific observations.
Check your Understanding / Fiction / NonfictionA book about the training routine of a champion athlete.
A politician’s memories of her childhood.
A story set on another planet in the distant future.
An essay about a social issue.
V. TheElements of Plot
Exposition: the ______of the ______, ______, ______, and the ______of the story.
Rising: Action: events that ______or occur up to the climax of the narrative.
Climax: the ______point of interest in a narrative (story).
Falling Action: events that lead to the ______of the narrative; the tying up of ______ends.
Resolution (______) the ______or ______up of a narrative.
VI. Elements of Short Stories: Plot, Conflict, Character, Setting, Symbol and Theme.
Plot is a short story’s series of ______events.
A short story usually focuses on a ______or ______.
Two main types of ______in literature.
An ______conflict is struggle between two ______, individual, and a group, or between a character and a force of nature.
An ______conflict is struggle within the ______of ______character.
Four Types of Conflict:
Man vs. Man / External or InternalMan vs. Nature / External or Internal
Man vs. Society / External or Internal
Man vs. Himself / External or Internal
VII.Characters
The ______or personalities who participate in the action of the story.
______are human beings, but they can also be ______or even ______.
Writers use these methods of ______to tell readers about characters.
Providing ______of what characters look like.
______characters’ ______and ______.
______characters ______with one another.
______characters’ ______and feelings.
Types of Characters
Round: is ______, show many ______qualities – revealing ______as well as virtues.
Flat: is ____-dimensional, showing a ______trait.
Dynamic - ______, changes, and ______something during the course of the story.
Static – a character who stays the ______.
Two types of Characterization
Direct – the author’s ______of the character’s
Indirect: showing personality through ______, ______, and ______or through other ______observations about them.
VIII. Setting
The setting of a story is the ______and ______of the action.
The time of a setting can be ______, ______, or ______and it may also include a specific ______, season, or ______of day.
Place can refer to the ______, economic, or ______environment as well as a specific geographical location in country, town or community.
IX. Symbol
______, place, or ______that has a ______meaning.
Also stands for something ______such as an idea or emotion.
X. Theme
Two types of theme: ______or ______.
A ______theme is expressed ______by the author.
An ______theme is suggested ______through the ______of the characters or through the events and the setting of the work.
Check your Understanding
Choose the letter of the short story element that best matches each item. / A. / B.A temple in India. / Setting / Character
A man struggles against the ocean waves. / Theme / Conflict
A poor woman is unhappy with her life. / Character / Plot
A girl begins to appreciate her culture. / Theme / Setting
Two enemies become friends. / Setting / Plot
PART 2 Reading Literature Strategies
I. Make Predictions:
A prediction is a ______about what will happen next.
A writer provides ______in the text that allow readers to ______questions and ______predictions.
Making predictions is one way for the reader to get involved in the story and make sense of it.
When making a prediction, consider each character’s ______and what information he or she knows.
Lastly, ______for places where the author hints at ______events.
Predictions use ______and ______provided in the text to ______what will happen later.
By the end of the Units you will learn how to:
You make predictions by ______and make a ______prediction.
You ______to ______and to ______and ______predictions.
Use predictions when you read ______.
Example:
Waiting patiently under the tree, the leopard crouched as the playful cub approached.
Ask appropriate questions: (Write two questions below).
1. ______.
2. ______.
Make a prediction about will happen next.
______.
II. Author’s Purposepg. 94
III. Making Inferences pg. 198
IV. Cause and Effect pg. 290
A cause is the ______for an action or ______. An effect is the ______of an action or event.
When you try to determine WHAT happened in a literary work, you are asking about the ______.
By the end of the Units you will learn how to:
Ask ______to analyze ______and ______.
______the action to ______cause and effect.
______text format and analyze the ______of format presentation.
Example:
When heavy snow covered the roof, it collapsed.
Ask appropriate questions:
What happened?
Answer: ______.
Why did it happen?
Answer: ______
______.
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Unit 1 and Unit 2: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Stories