ENGL 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fabulation, Player Versus Environment, Mad Scientist
10 Sep 2018
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Elements of fiction - dr. shona harrison (all underlined words are a part of the vocab list) Plot, character, theme, points of view, symbol and irony. Plot: the sequence of events of incidents of which the story is composed: conflict is a clash of actions, ideas, desires or wills ex. Unfortunately, any real life situations have unhappy endings; for the writers of serious fiction, the unhappy endings are more likely to raise significant issues concerning life and living. These are also called dramatized characters and they are generally consistent (in behavior), motivated (convincing), and plausible (lifelike): character types. A flat character is known by one or two traits. A stock character is a stereotyped character (a mad scientist, the absent - minded professor, the cruel mother in law. A static character remains the same from the beginning of the plot to the end. This change must be: within the possibilities of the character, sufficiently motivated, allowed sufficient time for change.
