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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Elements of Fiction. Characters. Static Character : Dynamic Character : Flat Character : Round Character :. With Your Partner. List the characters you meet in The Curious Incident Are they a static or dynamic character?

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

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  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttimeby Mark Haddon Elements of Fiction

  2. Characters • Static Character: • Dynamic Character: • Flat Character: • Round Character:

  3. With Your Partner • List the characters you meet in The Curious Incident • Are they a static or dynamic character? • Are they a round or flat character? • Be prepared to prove your point by having one quote per character.

  4. Characterization • Direct Characterization- • Indirect Characterization-

  5. With Your Partner • Give an example of direct characterization for Christopher. Find the quote to prove your point. • What is an example of indirect characterization for Christopher? Find a quote that shows this.

  6. Setting • The setting of a story is the time and place in which the action occurs. • Past, Present, or Future • Day or Night • Place may be Real or Imaginary Etc.

  7. With Your Partner - List the settings Christopher journeys to. - What time period does this story take place in? - How do you know?

  8. Conflict • Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces. • External Conflict: • Internal Conflict:

  9. Theme • Is the message of the story the writer presents through the characters and the plot. The theme is not usually stated.

  10. Plot • Is the series of events in a story • Often follows a pattern of development made up of as many as five specific stages. • Exposition • Rising Action • Climax • Falling Action • Resolution

  11. Exposition • It is at the beginning of a story. It gives background information that the reader needs to know. • It introduces____________________________________________ • Sometimes it tells what happened in the past.

  12. Exposition • Ask yourself: • Who are the characters? • What is the setting? • What is the conflict?

  13. Rising Action • During this part of the story, the conflict is obvious.

  14. Rising Action • Ask yourself: • What makes the conflict obvious?

  15. Climax • It is the turning point of the story, that point at which the conflict is resolved.

  16. Climax • Ask yourself: • How was the conflict resolved?

  17. Falling Action • The effects of the climax are shown. The suspense is over, but ____________________________________________

  18. Falling Action • Ask yourself: • How are the effects of the climax shown?

  19. Resolution • The resolution tells how the struggle ends. ________________________________________

  20. Resolution • Ask yourself: • How does the story end? • How does it tie up loose ends?

  21. Genres • Mystery: • How is The Curious Incident a mystery?

  22. Bildungsroman: • How is The Curious Incident a bildungsroman?

  23. Literary Devices • Protagonist: • Who is the protagonist of The Curious Incident?

  24. Point of View • Omniscient Point of View:

  25. First Person Point of View:

  26. Third Person Limited Point of View: • What point of view The Curious Incident told in?

  27. Character motivation: • What is Christopher’s motivation?

  28. Foreshadowing: • Give an example of foreshadowing in The Curious Incident.

  29. Tone: • What is the tone of The Curious Incident?

  30. Symbol- • Give an example of a symbol in The Curious Incident.

  31. Irony: Contrast between • What is said and what is really meant (______ Irony) • What is expected to happen and what really happens (_______ Irony) • What appears to be true and what is really true [the audience know but the character doesn’t] (_______ Irony) • What is ironic about The Curious Incident? • What type of irony is it?

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