Prose Terms 1-25

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Across
  1. 3. The point of greatest interest or intensity in the story.
  2. 5. All the problems or mysteries of the plot are unraveled; the final event of a story’s plot.
  3. 9. Fictional personality created by an author.
  4. 11. A character struggles against some outside force, another character, society as a whole, or some natural force.
  5. 12. The general feeling of the story itself.
  6. 14. By describing how a character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear the character speak, by revealing the character’s private thoughts and feelings, by showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character and, by showing the character’s actions.
  7. 21. The author or speaker’s attitude toward the characters, events, or audience.
  8. 24. The events following the technical climax in which the outcome is actually worked out.
Down
  1. 1. Showing, more indirect, less quick, more attention-getting.
  2. 2. A diagram that labels the events of the plot.
  3. 4. To provide a time and place for the characters and events, to aid in the understanding of characters and their actions, to create atmosphere and, to facilitate plot development.
  4. 6. In some modern fiction, plot has a relatively minor function.
  5. 7. A story within a story.
  6. 8. Turning point of the plot, Outcome is determined, and the Protagonist often changes or has an opportunity to change but does not.
  7. 10. A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character.
  8. 13. A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions.
  9. 14. The use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot.
  10. 15. Background information on characters and events necessary for understanding the story.Conflict is introduced
  11. 16. Telling, more direct, quicker, less-attention-getting, factual.
  12. 17. The time and place of events in a literary work.
  13. 18. Intensify the conflict and create suspense.
  14. 19. The reader’s state of mind after finishing the story.
  15. 20. The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
  16. 22. The distinctive use of language by a writer.
  17. 23. The series of related events that make up a story or drama.