Midterm Exam

It is a brief, artistic form of prose fiction which centers on a single main incident and intends to produce a
single dominant impression
Short Story
Novel
Novellete
Drama

A characteristic of short story that involves the strict selection of details

Economy
Compression
Emphasis

A characteristic of short story where the writer chooses and organizes details with a definite purpose in
mind to make the constructs of a short story small but complete and self-contained.
Economy
Compression
Emphasis

It is an extensive prose narrative, a book-length story written in prose usually comprising 75,000 to
100,000 words. Its length may range from a hundred and plus pages to a thousand and more pages.
Short Story
Novel
Novellete
Drama

A genre of fiction which is a brief story that offers some pointed statements of truth or explicitly states a
moral.
Fable
Parable
Tale
Romantic Fiction
It is a brief narrative with a realistic plot. It implicitly teaches a moral. The Holy Bible is a rich source of
this genre of fiction.
Parable

It contains strange and wonderful events without detailed characterization. It is also known as “yarn”
which aims to reveal the marvelous rather than the character.
Tale
It is a narrative that focuses on adventurous and daring actions. It is usually set in a remote time and
place with a dashing hero who saves a beautiful maiden in distress.
Romantic Fiction
It deals with futuristic concepts such as new world settings, futuristic science and technology, space and
time travel, intergalactic warfare, extraterrestrial life, alien abduction, and parallel universes.
Science fiction
It transfers its setting from the outside world to the mind and the inner life of a character. The
psychological novelist uses the method called “Stream of consciousness” to externalize the thoughts,
sensations, memories, impressions that rush through the mind without order or coherence
Psychological novel
It is element of fiction which is an imagined person who inhabits a story, but characters may also be based on real
people whom the writer uses as models.

Character

If hero is to villain, then protagonist is to __ (antagonist)

This type of character is also known as stock characters or stereotypes who are somehow capable of
advancing the plot, but require only the barest outlines of description.

Flat characters

This type of character does not experience basic character changes through the course of the story

Static characters

This type of character experience changes throughout the developments of the story.

Dynamic characters

It refers to the narrator in the story, the vantage point from where readers observe the events of the
story, or the writer’s special angle of vision, the one whose perspective is told.

Point of view

It is the teller of the story from whose eyes we look through as we read.

Narrator
It is a sequence of events that “has a beginning, a middle, and an end.” It is a pattern of actions, events,
and situations

Plot

It refers to the place and the time where and when an event happens

Setting

It refers to the central idea, the thesis, the message a story conveys, or a generalization or an
abstraction from it. (theme)

Which element refers to the time and location where the story happens?

Setting

The phrase, “Don’t judge the book by its cover,” is an example of

Theme

What do you call the most important character in a story?

protagonist

Which plot structure creates tone, presents characters and other important details to introduce the
story?

Exposition

Which element of a short story is known as the vantage point used to narrate the story?

Point of view

What do you call the character who contends with the main character in a short story?

antagonist

Which element of short story shows the author’s attitude or feelings?

Theme

What do you call the events that happen in a short story?

Plot