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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the amount of justification proportionate to?

2. What are the other words used by the author to describe random transformations in characters?

3. What type of humor is injected into a comedy?

4. How can a character effectively have a random transformation?

5. What can happen when an abnormal tense is chosen by a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What choice must a writer make when using a first person narrative, and what should influence the decision?

2. What are the advantages to using an omniscient or limited narration?

3. What are the most common tenses used in narration and how does the author describe the risks involved with using different ones?

4. What are some of the ways a writer can develop a story around characters that do not change?

5. What are some of the limitations and advantages of the first person narrative?

6. In what ways can a character change him/herself?

7. What are some of the consequences that are beyond a character's control and provoke a transformation?

8. How can a presentation perspective and a representation perspective be successfully applied?

9. What creates believable characters, according to the author in, "The Serious Character: Make Us Believe"?

10. How does the importance of a character affect the change undergone, and what effect does it have on the writing of the narrative?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, writers have a responsibility to the reader and the world around them.

1) Describe the contract that a writer has with a reader and how it affects the way a story is presented and delivered.

2) Explain writers' responsibility in observing the events that take place in their life, how receptive they should be to them, and the way the events are analyzed when writing fiction.

Essay Topic 2

A writer can use a number of different techniques to define their characters.

1) Analyze stereotyping, its uses and application, and examples of how it can be used to introduce characters as well as develop them.

2) Describe a character's network and how it can be used to develop that character.

Essay Topic 3

Comedy contains various elements that work together to provide humor in sometimes unexpected situations.

1) Explain how a comedy is normally based on a form of pain or suffering.

2) Describe the way comedic characters and events are derived from a sense of truth and why.

3) Analyze the different techniques used to interject humor into a story, the way they are used, and at least 3 examples of them.

4) Describe what controlled disbelief is, which characters are the most likely to use it, and why.

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