Little Worlds First Test

Question 0

• the action of the story
• a series of events- physical or mental- that are related to one another
• the structure of the story
• the organized pattern or sequence of events that make up a story.

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Plot

Question 1

This usually occurs at the beginning of a short story. The mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the story. The setting is identified. The main characters with their positions, circumstances and relationships to one another are established.

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Exposition

Question 2

This is part of the introduction which catches the reader’s attention. It usually introduces the conflict or exciting force.

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Narrative hook

Question 3

This part of the story begins to develop the conflict(s). A building of interest or suspense occurs. The series of events, conflicts, and crises in the story that lead up to the climax, providing the progressive intensity, and complicate the conflict.

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Rising action

Question 4

The turning point

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Climax

Question 5

The point in the story after the climax when all loose ends of the story are fixed

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Falling action

Question 6

The story comes to a reasonable ending. The conclusion. The hero character either emerges triumphant or is defeated at this point. The resolution is simply how the conflict turns out.

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The resolution

Question 7

beginning with the event that happened first and proceeding from there

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Chronological

Question 8

looking back at what has already happened

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Flashback

Question 9

story starts in the middle of the action without exposition

•Whatever the organization, every story has a beginning, middle and end.

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Media-res

Question 10

•A struggle which makes the story interesting. It is critical to a story, as theme most often is related to the conflict and its resolution.

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Conflict

Question 11

The main struggle of opposing forces around which the plot revolves

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Central conflict

Question 12

occurs when one faces someone else or some situation that is working against one’s own desires or goal

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External conflict

Question 13

when one is confronted with a problem that presents difficult choices involving one’s beliefs and values.

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Internal conflict

Question 14

the time, place, and environment in which the story takes place. Understanding the setting helps the reader to understand the context of the story.

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Setting

Question 15

is the series of events in the story that reveals the conflict(s), crisis (or turning point), and resolution. A good short story has a problem (or conflict) that must be solved

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Plot

Question 16

are the people and animals who take part in the action of a literary work

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Characters

Question 17

This is the vantage point from which the story is told.

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Point of view

Question 18

what the author is trying to tell us about the subject of the story.

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Theme

Question 19

What should a short story contain

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• a focused purpose
• setting details woven into the text
• development of at least one character through the character’s words, thoughts, and actions and through the words of other characters and/or the writer
• a problem/conflict which is developed as the story (plot) progresses
• a tightly-woven plot limited to one main idea or purpose
• a resolution of that problem/conflict (climax)
• a conclusion (what happens after the climax)
• snapshots (things for the reader to visualize)
• thoughtshots (characters’ thoughts)
• dialogue (which aids in the development of the elements)