ENGL222 Lecture Notes - Unreliable Narrator, In Medias Res, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
7 Mar 2014
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Note: office hours - wednesday 11:30-1:30 grammar seminar: wednesday jan 15th/22nd. Fictio ): n. a shaping or a counterfeiting. The events of fiction are coloured and shaped in some way away from truth. Never assume the author is the narrator nor that they share the same values, perspectives. Short story: a condensed form of fiction. Novella: a piece of fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Must be long enough to be published independently. Turns around a single incident, problem, or issue. Limited number of characters, often focusing on only one or two. Typically limited to one location and a shorter period of time than in a novel. Novel: a book like form of fiction. Story: everything that happens in a work of literature. Plot: the way in which the author relates the events of the story; particular actions and events to which a character reacts. Linked with the reactions of the central character.
