This document outlines key elements of fiction including plot, characters, theme, point of view, setting, and literary devices. It discusses different types of fiction such as picaresque, fantasy, adventure, romantic, horror, historical, realistic, psychological, science, utopian, dystopian, and verse. It also covers different methods of presenting speech and thought including direct and indirect speech, stream of consciousness, interior monologue, and soliloquy. Key terms of fiction like climax, denouement, flashback, motif, and surprising ending are also defined.

1. FICTIONAL ANALYSIS
It should be focused on
Plot
Characters
Theme
Point of view
Setting
Literary devices

2. FICTION ELEMENTS
Plot is the narration of the story
Character/s act/s out in the story and they can be
flat or round (with a few qualities and with no
development in fiction or more complex)
Theme is the central or hidden idea
Point of view can be fixed or shifting (wide or
narrow), of the 1st or 3rd narrator, obtrusive or
unobtrusive, non/omniscient

3. FICTION ELEMENTS
The time of the story is chronological whereas the time of
the plot is fictional
The story pattern is the way the plot is organized as a
whole. It may be a pattern in which the initial situation is
changed, mantained or re-established.
The point of view is the angle or angles from which the
story is told. Just as in a photograph the angle can be
wider or narrower according to the lenses employed.

4. FICTION ELEMENTS
Setting concerns the time and place of the story. It
can be recognizable, invented, social, in/outdoors.
Time can be fictional or
chronological.
Literary devices can be symbols, allegory, myth,
metaphors, fantasy, irony,
humour, chronicle, suspense

5. FICTION TYPES
PICARESQUE
FANTASY
ADVENTURE
ROMANTIC
HORROR
HISTORICAL
REALISTIC
PSYCHOLOGICAL

6. FICTION TYPES
SCIENCE
UTOPIAN
DYSTOPIAN
IN VERSE

7. SPEECH PRESENTATION
DIRECT SPEECH (monologues, dialogues, interior
monologue)
INDIRECT SPEECH
SEMI-INDIRECT SPEECH
FREE DIRECT SPEECH
FREE INDIRECT SPEECH

8. THOUGHT
PRESENTATION
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS (the flux of
thoughts of one character)
DIRECT INTEROR MONOLOGUE (the point of
view corresponds to the internal thought of one
character)
INDIRECT INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
SOLILOQUY

9. KEY TERMS
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
FLASHBACK
MOTIF
STORY-WITHIN-A-STORY
SURPRISING ENDING
TURN