Plot in fiction

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Chapter 2 Plot in fiction
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Plot It is a series of carefully devised,
interrelated events that progress through a
struggle of opposing forces to a climax and to a
conclusion/not always a resolution.
Epitasis
Peripeteia
(crisis)
Climax
Complication an element that introduces some
problem or difficulty
Catastasis
Rising Action
Falling Action
Conflict the tension that results from the
struggle of opposing forces in a plot.
Person vs Person Person vs Environment
Person vs Self
Exposition
Resolution / Denoument
Protasis
Catastrophe
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The Players in a Short story
Protagonist he or she is the leading figure
both in terms of importance in the story and in
terms of his or her ability to enlist our
interest and sympathy, whether the cause is
heroic or ignoble.
Antagonist The character (or force) in a story
who stands directly opposed to the protagonist, a
rival or an opponent of the protagonist.
Agon contest (conflict)
Greek roots
Proto first
Agonistes actor
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Graham Greene
1904-1991
Biographical Information
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St Pauls Cathedral
200 year old home symbolizes Upper Class Values
Snob Par. 2, p. 68
Beauty Pars. 30 41, p. 70 See also par. 177,
p.81
Money Pars. 97-100, p. 75
Love Pars. 101-102, p. 75
Courtesy Par. 123-24, pp. 76-77
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Theme for the Destructors p. 160
The dislocations caused by a devastating war may
produce among the young a conscious or
unconscious rebellion against all the values of
the reigning society--a rebellion in which the
creative instincts are channeled into destructive
enterprises.
Thomas Arp
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Born 1967
Biographical Information
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Temple at Konarak
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Temple at Konarak
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One of the Twenty four wheels
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Surya
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Hanuman
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Theme for Interpreter of Maladies
Some men that experience midlife
tribulations--whose domestic life is physically
comfortable but spiritually unfulfilling and
lacking in romance--may construct a fantasy life
around another woman to bolster their attachment
to idealistic romance and youthful dreams,not
expecting a sudden truth to shatter their world
and effect the continuation of their melacholy
solitude.
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IRONY IN FICTION
VERBAL IRONY THE DISCREPANCY IS BETWEEN WHAT IS
SAID AND WHAT IS MEANT.
DRAMATIC IRONY THE CONTRAST IS BETWEEN WHAT A
CHARACTER SAYS AND WHAT THE READER KNOWS TO BE
TRUE.
SITUATIONAL IRONY THE DISCREPANCY IS BETWEEN
APPEARANCE AND REALITY, BETWEEN EXPECTATION AND
FULFILLMENT, BETWEEN WHAT IS AND WHAT WOULD SEEM
APPROPRIATE.