Short Story Flashcards
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Setting
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The physical and emotional background
1
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Irony
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Something that seems one way but in reality is different
2
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Theme
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The point the writer makes about life or people
3
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Plot
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The pattern of events
4
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Conflict
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The struggle between opposing forces
Man vs man
Man vs nature
Man vs society
Man vs himself
5
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Foreshadowing
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Hinting at something that will happen later in the story
6
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Allusion
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A reference to something well known from the past
7
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Verbal irony
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A statement that says the opposite of what it means
8
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Situational irony
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A situation that occurs that neither the character nor the reader expects
9
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Dramatic irony
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A truth that the reader knows but the characters don’t
