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Tham khảo tài liệu 'scienten_practise_english 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | READING LITERATURE Some key defining moments issues and characteristics of our contemporary period include the civil rights women s rights and gay rights movements space exploration globalization and increasing interdependence the end of the Cold War and the expansion of democracy the computer revolution and the beginning of the Information Age advances in and increasing dependence upon technology questioning of reality artificial intelligence virtual reality the AIDS epidemic environmentalism multiculturalism and celebration of roots 320 CHAPTER 34 Fiction THE KIND of literature that most students are most familiar with and therefore most comfortable with is fiction. This chapter reviews the eight core elements of fiction including plot character setting and theme. The word fiction comes from the Latin wordfingere which means to make or shape. Works of fiction tell about characters and events created in and shaped by the author s imagination. Fiction includes the genres listed earlier novels short stories poems and plays. But because poems and plays have their own special characteristics and conventions they will be covered in separate sections. The focus here is on prose fiction. Prose is writing that is not in poetic form verse or dramatic form stage or screenplay . There are eight important elements of fiction plot character setting tone point of view language and style symbolism theme 321 FICTION Plot Character Plot refers to the series of events in a story the order in which the actions take place. A story s plot always revolves around some kind of conflict. The conflict may be between two characters between the main character and an idea or force e.g. nature or racism or between the character and him- or herself. Plot is often arranged chronologically in time order but authors sometimes vary the order of events to help build suspense and to control how much we know about the characters. For example an author may use flashbacks to describe events that took .