CNF_Slide_Lesson 3 - All_About_Fiction 24

CNF Lesson 3

1. M1L3

2. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? TARGET Identify the elements of fiction Derive the meaning and theme of sample sections Write the draft of a short story using the various elements of fiction

3. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Defining Fiction Fiction is defined as any narrative about imagined ideas, people, places, events it may also be based on true-to-life events, places, and people traditionally, fiction refers to narratives in prose form: stories, novels, novellas, and dramas CREATIVE NONFICTION

4. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Elements of Fiction Characters refers to the creatures, animals or people being depicted in the story they are described through the way they move, act, or speak CREATIVE NONFICTION

5. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Elements of Fiction Setting refers to the time and place, including the atmosphere or the feeling that the story evokes it includes a depiction of the social, political, and historical context of the story CREATIVE NONFICTION

6. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Elements of Fiction Plot gives a sense of causality to the story, moving the actions through stages of rising and falling events it includes the scenes and actions starting with the exposition (or the story’s opening scene) until the denouement (or the final unfolding of events) CREATIVE NONFICTION

7. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Elements of Fiction Point of view refers to the perspective of the character telling the story it is also called angle of vision and determines from whose perspective the story is being told CREATIVE NONFICTION

8. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Elements of Fiction: Point of View First-person point of view (recounts the events and action from the narrator’s perspective) Second person point of view (the writer is having a conversation with the readers and the writer addresses the readers as you) Third person point of view (either a limited or an omniscient point of view): Limited (detached from the story or comments on the action of the characters) Omniscient (allows writers to get inside the minds of their characters) CREATIVE NONFICTION

9. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Narrative Devices Narrative devices refer to the strategies and techniques that writers use to relay their message these are the tools that allow fictionists to expand the story and clarify its meaning CREATIVE NONFICTION

10. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Types of Narrative Devices Tone is carried out through the narrator’s voice or through dialogue it may be humorous or serious, gentle or sarcastic, apologetic or arrogant, casual or formal CREATIVE NONFICTION

11. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Types of Narrative Devices Foreshadowing allows the fictionist to prepare the readers for later events in the story it involves giving readers bits of information and allowing them to guess the plot’s outcome CREATIVE NONFICTION

12. Lesson 3 : What is fiction? Types of Narrative Devices Symbols are images, ideas, themes, or character types that are universally recognized across cultures Example: A heart may represent love . CREATIVE NONFICTION