Short Story

Question 1

What are the 5 things that make a setting?

Answer 1

Place, time, weather, social conditions, and mood or atmospere.

Question 2

What are the 5 elements of a story(in order)?

Answer 2

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement

Question 3

What are the 2 meanings for the word character?

Answer 3

1. The person in a work of fiction
2. The characteristics of a person

Question 4

What are the types of characters?

Answer 4

Rounded and flat

Question 5

What does POV stand for and mean?

Answer 5

Point of view, is defined as the perspective from which the story is told.

Question 6

What are the 3 types of POVs?

Answer 6

First person, Third person limited, and Omniscient.

Question 7

What are the 2 types of conflict?

Answer 7

External and internal

Question 8

What are the 4 kinds of conflict?

Answer 8

Human vs. Human

Human vs. Nature/circumstances

Human vs. Society

Human vs. Self

Question 9

What is the idea of the theme?

Answer 9

The theme is a piece of fiction that’s a controlling idea or its central insight.

Question 10

What elements are short stories made up of?

Answer 10

1. Setting
2. Plot
3. Characters
4. Conflict
5. Theme

Question 11

Explain and define Exposition.

Answer 11

Exposed to characters, setting, initial conflict.

Question 12

Explain and define Rising action.

Answer 12

• The events leading up to the climax of the story. This is where the story builds based on the decisions made by the characters.

Question 13

Explain and define Climax.

Question 14

Explain and define Falling action.

Question 15

Explain and define Denouement.