Film Experience: Chapter 6 - Narrative Quiz

Chapter 6 Narrative

Narrative         a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events

Screenplays     The scripts for films. They include camera angles and can allow for more scene changes than a stage play.

Intertitles         mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle

Plot      sequence of events in a story

Characters       Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story.

Character Coherence   the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique

Character Depth          a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

Protagonist      the principal character in a work of fiction

Antagonist      A character or force in conflict with the main character

Archetype       A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

Stereotype       a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people

Character Development          The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

Diegesis           In a narrative film, the world of the film's story. the diegesis includes events that are presumed to have occurred and actions and spaces not shown onscreen.

Nondiegetic    elements that don't belong to the space or world of the story (example: credits)

Linear Chronology      Plot events and actions that proceed one after another as a forward movement in time

Plot Order       exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view

Deadline Structure      A narrative structure that accelerates the action and plot toward a central event or action that must be accomplished by a certain time.

Narrative Duration      The length of time an event or action is presented in the plot.

Narrative Frequency   Describes how often the plot elements are repeatedly shown

Narrative Location      Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.

Narration         The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

First-Person Narration a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

Narrative Frame          inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones.

Third-Person Narration           An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.

Omniscient Narration  where the plot is presented from all angles

Restricted Narration   Where one or two major characters are the focus

Reflexive Narration    The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.

Unreliable Narration   Which raises questions about the truth of the narrative

Multiple Narrations     Several perspectives are used to tell a story.

Classical Film Narrative          Centered around one main character who moves the plot along with a cause-and-effect logic.

Postclassical Narration            A global body of films that began to appear in the decades after WW2 and that strained but maintained the classical formula for coherent characters and plots.

Alternative Narrative FIlm     Deviates from or challenges linear narratives, undermines the centrality of a main character, and questions the objective realism of classical narration.

1. In a narrative film, the world of the film's story. the diegesis includes events that are presumed to have occurred and actions and spaces not shown onscreen.

ANSWER: Diegesis

2. a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

ANSWER: First-Person Narration

3. The length of time an event or action is presented in the plot.

ANSWER: Narrative Duration

4. The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

ANSWER: Character Development

5. a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people

ANSWER: Stereotype

5 Matching Questions

1. Character Depth: a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality
2. Unreliable Narration: Which raises questions about the truth of the narrative
3. Linear Chronology: Plot events and actions that proceed one after another as a forward movement in time
4. Plot Order: exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view
5. Narrative Location: Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response
1. Narrative
2. Stereotype
3. CORRECT: Archetype
4. Narration
2. An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.
1. Omniscient Narration
2. First-Person Narration
3. Reflexive Narration
4. CORRECT: Third-Person Narration
3. where the plot is presented from all angles
1. Reflexive Narration
2. Multiple Narrations
3. Unreliable Narration
4. CORRECT: Omniscient Narration
4. the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique
1. CORRECT: Character Coherence
2. Characters
3. Character Depth
4. Character Development
5. the principal character in a work of fiction
1. Antagonist
2. Plot Order
3. Diegesis
4. CORRECT: Protagonist

5 True/False Questions

1. Antagonist → the principal character in a work of fiction

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Antagonist → A character or force in conflict with the main character.

2. Narration → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is true.

3. Restricted Narration → The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Restricted Narration → Where one or two major characters are the focus.

4. Intertitles → mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle

CORRECT: This is true.

5. Characters → a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Characters → Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story..

1. The scripts for films. They include camera angles and can allow for more scene changes than a stage play.

CORRECT: Screenplays

2. A global body of films that began to appear in the decades after WW2 and that strained but maintained the classical formula for coherent characters and plots.

ANSWER: Postclassical Narration

3. where the plot is presented from all angles

CORRECT: Omniscient Narration

4. An all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story. The narrator can present the point of view of any character at any given time.

ANSWER: Third-Person Narration

5. a way of referring to personal mysteries and intricacies that deepen and layer the dimensions of a complicated personality

ANSWER: Character Depth

5 Matching Questions

1. Characters: Central or minor figures that focus or motivate the events of the story.
2. Stereotype: a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people
3. Narrative Frequency: Describes how often the plot elements are repeatedly shown
4. Character Coherence: the product of different psychological, historical, or other expectations that see people as fundamentally consistent and unique
5. Character Development: The ways in which a character changes and evolves throughout a story, often as a result of some conflict within the story.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Refers to the indoor, outdoor, natural, and artificial spaces that not only serve as backgrounds for stories, but also take on cultural and social significance as characters explore these spaces, contrast them, conquer them, inhabit them, leave them, build on them, and transform them.
1. Narration
2. Narrative Frame
3. CORRECT: Narrative Location
4. Narrative Duration
2. Centered around one main character who moves the plot along with a cause-and-effect logic.
1. Omniscient Narration
2. Postclassical Narration
3. Unreliable Narration
4. CORRECT: Classical Film Narrative
3. mostly associated with silent films, images that present printed information or dialogue about the images before or after an intertitle
1. Narrative
2. Stereotype
3. CORRECT: Intertitles
4. Characters
4. the principal character in a work of fiction
1. CORRECT: Protagonist
2. Antagonist
3. Plot Order
4. Plot
5. The movie calls attention to the narrative point of view in order to subvert its narrative authority.
1. Restricted Narration
2. Unreliable Narration
3. CORRECT: Reflexive Narration
4. Multiple Narrations

5 True/False Questions

1. First-Person Narration → a narrative in which the narrator tells the story from his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as "I"; active participant in novel or observer

CORRECT: This is true.

2. Plot Order → exposition, inciting incedent, conflict, rising action, climax, denoument, falling action, resolution, theme. point of view

CORRECT: This is true.

3. Narrative → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is false.

It should be Narrative → a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events.

4. Narration → The organizing perspective through which plots are constructed is referred to as narration.

CORRECT: This is true.

5. Nondiegetic → elements that don't belong to the space or world of the story (example: credits)

CORRECT: This is true.