meaning of fiction types of fiction categories of bad fiction literary devices

1. Fiction
Prepared by: Alexandria Rabo

2. What is Fiction?
•A form of writing that is made up.
•Refers to short story and novels.
•Normally contains lessons, themes and
messages about life.

3. FORMS OF
FICTION

4. MYTHS
•involves gods and
goddess, heroes and
superbeings.

5. ADVENTURE
•Stories that contains
plot with an exciting
involving risks and
danger as its main
theme.

6. LEGENDS
•Stories that have
historical basis that has
been down from one
generation to the next.

7. MYSTERY
•Usually realistic about a
mysterious events which is
not explained a crime that
is not solved until the end.

8. FANTASY
•A fiction that contains
elements that are not
real.

9. SCIENCE
FICTION
•Stories which
includes future
technology or
innovations.

10. REALISTIC FICTION
•Stories that tell about a situation
occurring in the real world.
•Is often exaggerated situations,
characaters.
•Did not truly happen in reality but is
possible.

11. HISTORICAL FICTION
•Stories which took place in a
particular time period in the
past that includes facts
about the time period.
•Basic setting is real, but
fictional characters.

12. FOLKTALES
•Has simple characters who
may be people of made up
characters.
•Passed down from
generation to generation.

13. PLAY/DRAMA
•Stories that were written
for a performance in front
of an audience.

14. FAIRYTALES
•Has difficult problems to
solve.
•Involves entities such as
dwarfs, fairies, giants,
mermaids, witches.
•Usually contains magic or
enchantments.

15. FABLES
Story where the
animals are able
to act like
humans.

16. SHORT STORIES
•Limits characterizations
•Usually 2,000 to 6,000
words
•Has 8-24 pages

17. NOVELLA
•Halfway of a story and a novel
that has at least 50 to 150
pages.

18. NOVEL
•A long narrative work of
fiction
•Contains 250 pages and
above

19. Varieties of
Plot Pattern

20. OVERCOMINGTHE
MONSTER
•The protagonist sets out to
defeat an antagonistic force
which threatens the protagonist
and their homeland.

21. RAGSTO RICHES
•The poor protagonist acquires
things such as power, wealth,
and a mate, before losing it all
and gaining it back upon
growing as a person.

22. THE QUEST
•The protagonist and some
companions set out to acquire
an important object or to get
to a location, facing many
obstacles and temptations
along the way.

23. VOYAGE AND RETURN
•The protagonist goes to a
strange land and, after
overcoming the threats it
poses to him or her, returns
with experience.

24. COMEDY
•Light and humorous character
with a happy or cheerful ending.
•a dramatic work in which the
central motif is the triumph over
adverse circumstance, resulting
in a successful or happy
conclusion

25. COMEDY
•It refers to a pattern where the
conflict becomes more and more
confusing, but is at last made
plain in a single clarifying event.
Most romances fall into this
category.

26. TRAGEDY
•The protagonist is a hero with one
major character flaw or great
mistake which is ultimately their
undoing.
• Their unfortunate end evokes pity at
their folly and the fall of a
fundamentally 'good' character.

27. REBIRTH
•During the course of the story, an
important event forces the main
character to change their ways,
often making them a better
person.

28. Literary
Techniques

29. • FORESHADOWING
• Early clues on what might happen in the future
• THEME
• Central topic
• SYMBOLISM
• Represents idea, quality concepts
• DIALOGUE
• Conversation between two or more characters.

30. •ATMOSPHERE
• Prevailing emotional and mental climate of a
fiction.
•STRUCTURE
• The way time moves in a novel
•PANEL
• Same story told from different point of views

31. •POINT OFVIEW
•The perspective of the narrator
who will present the action to the
reader.
1.First Person- the narrator is a
character in the story and tells
the story from his or her
perspective.

32. 2. Second Person - told from the
perspective of “you”.
3.Third Person - narrator is not a
character in the story.
- uses “he/she/it”

33. 3.Third Person
•Third Person Limited:
•Limited means that the POV is limited
to only one character
•Which means that the narrator only
knows what that character knows.

34. •Third Person Multiple:
•This type is still in the "he/she/it"
category, but now the narrator
can follow multiple characters in
the story.
•The challenge is making sure that
the reader knows when you are
switching from one character to
another.

35. •Third Person Omniscient:
•This point of view still uses the
"he/she/it" narration but now the
narrator knows EVERYTHING.
•The narrator can know things that
others don't, can make comments
about what's happening, and can
see inside the minds of other
characters.

36. •FIGURE EIGHT
•Looks time around a central moment.
•FLASHBACKS
•Simple method of inserting an episode
that occurred previously on the plot.
•FRAME STORY
•Tales told by a character appearing in
a larger work such as a separate
narrative.

37. •OUT OF SEQUENCE
• The information is scrambled throughout
the story.
•CIRCULAR/ANTICIPATORY
• it starts in the present, has flashbacks in
the past, and returns to present for
conclusion.
•CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
• the character cannot see their future.

38. •MULTIPLE FLASHBACKS
• Flashbacks of the story that has complicated
set of clues that leads to solution of the
problem.
•FLASH FORWARD (PROLEPSIS)
• Gives the character a sudden, clear-eyed
glimpse into the future.
•REVERSE ORDER
• it marches the character into the past;
changes will affect the present.

39. •TONE coloring of the
emotion
•STYLE diction, balance
of modes
•SYMBOL meaning beyong
•TENSION makes story
more interesting

40. TECHNIQUES OFTENSION
• Irony and Satire
• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Arousing Curiosity
• Dramatic Questions
• Suspense
• Dramatic Conflict
• Mainspring of fiction and drama

41. SOURCES OF BAD
FICTION

42. SOURCES OF BAD FICTION
• DRAMA
• HIGHTECH MELODRAMA
• Overloaded dramatic suspense
• Over-rated
• ADOLESCENTTRAGEDY
• Sophisticated fiction as long as you keep you
material genuine and fresh in detail.
• POE GIMMICK
• Edgar Allan Poe is the master of strange, bizzare
and surprise ending.

43. SOURCES OF BAD FICTION
•MOCK FAULKNER
• Imitation deprives writers in their own voice
at best and sometimes result in unintended
satire.
•THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF
AN INCORRUPTIBLEWRITER
• Protagonist walks up and down a beach,
planning a great model.

44. SOURCES OF BAD FICTION
•THE FREE-FLYING FANTASY
• Not to be confused with “stream of
conscious writing”
•YUPPIE GONEWRONG (CLICHÉ)
• Protagonist puts career and love ahead of
love.

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