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Fiction
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What is Fiction?
 Basically, a literary work which is only based on
human imagination.
 Today the word ‘fiction’ has developed into a term
that means wider. Fiction may refer to a genre of a
writing or even movie, like science fiction.
 What we mean fiction here are: Novel and short
story
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Approach in Fiction Analysis
 Intrinsic Analysis
 Extrinsic Analysis
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Intrinsic Analysis:
An analysis of a literary work in which the elements of the
work are the focus of the analysis.
In another work the analysis studies, describes, explains
or interpret the internal aspect of the literary work
(fiction)
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
Intrinsic Analysis
The soul depression of a wife portrayed in
Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour.
 The analysis of symbols in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young
Goodman Brown

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Extrinsic Analysis:
An analysis of a literary work (e.g. fiction) in which the
focus of the analysis is not on the elements but on
external factors or aspects like cultural background,
the author, etc.
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
Extrinsic Analysis
 ‘Aristocratic family life in the Southern U.S portrayed in A Rose for Emily’

‘The way of life and thought of the European upper class
as portrayed in the movie Titanic’.
Intro to Literature
Elements of Fiction
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Plot
Crisis/Climax
Rising action/
Complication
Begin/exposition
Falling
action
Resolusion/Denuemen
t
Crisis/Climax
In the climax the conflicts of the story reach the highest tension or the peak of
conflicts  Climax
When they reach the peak so there must be no new conflict/s would come up. In this
stage, the (main) character/s try to find the solution of the conflict/s  Crisis
In finding the solution of the conflict/s the character/s have to decide or choose or
make a decision.
Conflict
 Any problems or two opposing powers/events occur in a story.
 It is the story all about.
 What the story really tell
 Analyzing conflict:
1. Stating/mentioning the conflict(s)
2. Classify the kinds of conflict(s)
Examples of Conflict
 Siti Nurbaya:
a. The struggle of Siti Nurbaya to choose between Datuk
Maringgih
and Samsul Bahri.
b. The struggle of Samsul Bahri to take revange to Dt. Maringgih.
 Titanic:
a. The struggle of Rose to choose between her fiancé and Jack
b. The struggle of Rose and Jack to run away from Rose’s fiancé and
to
keep survive from the sinking of the ship
Kinds Conflict
Based on the source, the conflict can be
divided into two:


Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Conflict

Internal Conflict
Conflict that comes from the internal factor of the characters
The conflict of spiritual
 The conflict of mind
 The conflict of …

Conflict

External Conflict
Conflict that comes from the External factor of the characters
 The conflict between man and man
 The conflict between man and society
 The conflict between man and nature
Examples of Conflict
 Siti Nurbaya:
a. The struggle of Siti Nurbaya to choose between Datuk Maringgih
and Samsul Bahri.
b. The struggle of Samsul Bahri to take revange to Dt. Maringgih.
The kinds of conflict:
a. Internal conflict
b. External conflict
 Titanic:
a. The struggle of Rose to choose between her fiancé and Jack
Internal Conflict
b. The struggle of Rose and Jack to run away from Rose’s fiancé and to
keep survive from the sinking of the ship
 External conflict
Intro to Literature
Elements of Fiction
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Overview of Plot an conflict
Interna
l
Plot
Externa
l
Man vs nature
Conflict
Crisis/Climax
Rising action/
Complication
Begin/exposition
Person vs Person
Person
Falling
action
Resolusion/Denuemen
t
vs Group vs group
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Setting
To
determine
the
relation between the
story and the setting
Function
by finding out the
•background
function
•Reinforcing the theme
Place/Time
•Antagonist
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Setting
Function
•Background
• No significant relation between the story and the
setting
• If the setting changed, there’s no significant effect
to the
whole story
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Setting
Function
•Reinforcing the theme
• The setting and
the story have close relation.
Actually, the story
has something to do with the
setting.
• If the setting changed, there will be significant
effect to the whole story.
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Setting
Function
•Antagonist
• The conflict is external conflict; Man vs nature.
• It could be close relation or not close elation
• Close relation : If the setting of the story
is about
certain place/time.
• Not close relation : If the setting of the
story is
not
about
certain
place/time.