SEVEN ELEMENTS OF FICTION 1) PLOT - Action which occurs -- 5 ingredients plotted as a witch’s hat 1) Exposition (introduction) - background information 2) Rising Action / Complications - conflicts are presented 3) Climax - high point of the action 4) Falling Action - lessens the intensity 5) Denouement (conclusion) - pulls the story together ["They lived happily every after"] NOTE: NOT ALL STORIES CONTAIN ALL 5 INGREDIENTS 2) SETTING - Time‚ Place‚ Customs
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of the Saint Joseph Cross Country team. I consistently finished in the last five runners‚ and despised every moment that I spent training for the race season. Even though I began running cross country in elementary school‚ I was never a natural. After years‚ I was allowed to quit. By the time I was a freshman in high school‚ I had forgotten my hatred of running. After much enticement from my mother - a runner herself - I joined Bowling Green High School’s Cross Country team. Halfway through the first
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ALC102 – Assignment 3 Lewis Maddocks – 210706072 Research Topic: ‘How postmodernism has affected media‚ both new and old?’ Since the invention of the television‚ radio‚ and then the internet‚ the media has been a dominant part of our society. We are surrounded by it; everything we see on the news and on our computers is controlled by the media. Now with this new wave of technology‚ new media has emerged‚ in the form of social networking and social media‚ meaning that the way we communicate is
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FIVE ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY Plot -it is the sequence or flow of the events in a short story that would help develop the author’s idea. There are five elements of plot structure-- introduction‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and denouement. Character -considered as being one of the most important factor to a good short story‚ the characters are sentient beings who carry out the actions of the story. Setting -the when and where in which the story takes place. Authors often
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“ Over the river and through the woods” hills‚ more woods‚ more hills‚ and another river”. This is how I feel in Cross Country. I’ve started getting faster‚ Which is awesome. The first meet I ran I got an overall PR But‚ The second meet I hurt myself by tripping in a pot hole falling onto my hip. I when I made contact with the ground‚ all I felt was pain. Pain was flowing through my hip over and over again in that race‚ I felt pain and I haven’t been able to run correctly since. My Dad had me walk
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Herrick uses a Carpe diem theme to express his desires in “To the Virgin‚ to Make Much of Time.” Moreover‚ Robert Browning expresses personal desires in “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” using dramatic monologue. As shown in these texts‚ desires negatively affect people according to a priest’s motivation for women to pursue marriage‚ a Duke’s killing of his Duchess‚ and a lover’s
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shadowy‚ dark head‚ like mine‚ seemed to nod imperceptibly above the ghostly gray of my sleeping suit. It was‚ in the night‚ as though I had been faced by my own reflection in the depths of a somber and immense mirror"( The Secret Sharer 10). "The Demon Lover" is about a British woman who left her British home with her
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of a classic gothic novel such as themes that play out throughout the book. The characters in the novel have become archetypes for many gothic novels. The setting reflects the chilling themes as it is the background for the characters plummet into despair. Frankenstein is an excellent example of a gothic novel due to its amazing and subtle gothic undertones and that it has become a classic example of gothic literature. Frankenstein incorporates the main themes necessary in creating a great gothic
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Robert Frost’s Poetic Techniques Uniquely Used in "The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost utilizes several poetic techniques to reveal the theme in his poem‚ "The Road Not Taken"‚ which is stressing the importance the decision making of one is‚ regardless of whether or not it is agreement with the resolution of their peers‚ and how it can affect their future. The techniques exercised in this piece of work are symbolism‚ imagery‚ and tone. Symbolism is the most powerfully used technique due to the fact
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Music 360 Writing Assignment 1 2 March‚ 2013 Country Music Since America has changed drastically throughout the years‚ music has changed along with it. Music changed with the times and captured those moments inside them. Music lets us take a look at the past and gives us a chance to feel the emotions that were happening within those years. America was an independent natation that conformed to no one else and it showed. We as a nation had to grow and learn on our own and people expressed it in
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