7 Terms
Contributors in Fiction
Fiction
Voice
Literature; Fiction
"The narrational form used. Often confused with point of view, but it is distinct. The same scene, told from the point of view of the same character, will have a very different texture if done ...
Overhead
Literature; Fiction
The amount of reality-bending in a science fiction or fantasy storey which the reader must absorb as a precondition of enjoying the work and appreciating the dramatic point. Science fiction has more ...
Zipper storey
Literature; Fiction
A particular form of storey involving two (or more) alternating strands, which in the story's beginning appear completely unrelated but which over time come closer and closer together until their ...
Pace
Literature; Fiction
The timing by which the major events in the plot unfold and by which the big scenes are shown. Dramatic tension is largely a function of pace. Pace is also the process of stretching out the big ...
Watson
Literature; Fiction
A supporting character whose principal purpose is to voice the reader's confusions and concerns, so that the protagonist is given an opportunity to answer them without resorting to expository lump. ...
White room syndrome
Literature; Fiction
An authorial imagination inadequate to the situation at hand; most common in the beginning of a story. "She awoke in a white room." The white room is obviously the white piece of paper confronting ...
Organ music
Literature; Fiction
Details which seek to countersink an emotional response in the reader even before anything happens (such as crackling lightning and rain outside a window before anyone's murdered).
