ENGL 91C Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Dracula, Station Eleven, Speculative Fiction
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"a story or setting created from the imagination, and not presented as fast. A cultural product that comes in many forms and genres. An artwork produced through the creator"s conscious manipulation of story elements. There are many different forms of fiction - film, tv, plays, video games, podcast/radio, poetry, short stories, novellas, novels, graphic novels, flash fiction. Genres: literary fiction, realist fiction, science fiction, fantasy, romance, horror/thriller, mystery/detective/noir, erotica/pornography, historical fiction, western. Definition of genre: a type of literary or artistic production, usually determined by the content, style, and subject matter of a work. Elements of fiction: character, plot, narrative voice/point of view, setting/worldbuilding, theme/motif/symbol, style. "fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude" - james wood. Characterization: indirect/implicit vs. direct/explicit. flat vs. round (forster"s definitions). static vs. dynamic - static stays the same through the whole story, dynamic characters transform over the course of the story. Character types/conventions: protagonist, anti-hero, antagonist, foil, stock character.
