Short Story Elements

Question 1

Contemporary

Answer 1

Living and happening at the same time period

Question 2

Eerie

Answer 2

Weird, uncanny

Question 3

Incident

Answer 3

A single happening in a story

Question 4

Novel

Answer 4

A long fictional story with complex plot and many events and characters

Question 5

Omniscient

Answer 5

Knowing all things

Question 6

Point of View

Answer 6

The position from which the author presents the story

Question 7

Prose fiction

Answer 7

Imaginary story written on ordinary language, without rhyme or meter

Question 8

List the 4 elements of the short story

Answer 8

In first or third person
Form of prose fiction
Read in one sitting
Single problem and single plot

Question 9

What can the setting do to a character?

Answer 9

A setting can describe the character and the mood

Question 10

How many characters in a short story?

Answer 10

3-4

Question 11

What is the main character called?

Answer 11

The protagonist

Question 12

Who is the main character against?

Answer 12

The antagonist

Question 13

What is external conflict?

Answer 13

Something that is against the main character that is outside himself

Question 14

What is internal conflict?

Answer 14

Something that is against the main character that is inside himself

Question 15

Describe the main plot of every story

Answer 15

Opening incident, plot incidents, crisis, then denouement

Question 16

What is a theme?

Answer 16

What was the story about, like the moral of the story

Question 17

Describe 1st person view

Answer 17

I, me, we, mine, ours, myself, and ourselves

Question 18

Describe 2nd person view.

Answer 18

You, yours, yourself

Question 19

Describe third person.

Answer 19

He , she, it, his, her, their, it’s, himself, herself, themselves, and itself