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Short Story Elements Flashcards

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Setting

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The time and location that a story takes place in

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What other factors are included in setting?

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Weather conditions, social conditions, mood

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Plot

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The sequence of events in a story or play

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What are the five elements of plot?

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Introduction
Rising action
Climax
Falling action
Conclusion
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What is the introduction?

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The beginning of the story

- characters and setting are revealed

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What is another word for introduction?

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Exposition

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What is the rising action?

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Where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is revealed

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What is another word for rising action?

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Inciting force

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What is the climax

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The highest point of interest and the turning point of the story

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What is the falling action?

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The events and complications resolve themselves

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What is the conclusion?

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The final outcome of untangling events in the story

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What is another word for conclusion?

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Denouement

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What is conflict?

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The opposition of forces which ties one incident to another makes the plot move

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What are examples of conflict?

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Person vs person
Person vs self
Person vs nature
Person vs society
Person vs supernatural 
Person vs technology
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What are the two types of conflict?

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External and internal

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What is internal conflict?

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A struggle within one’s self, a person must make a decision, overcome pain, quiet their tongue, resist an urge, etc

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What is an external conflict?

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A struggle with a force outside one’s self.

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What is theme?

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Main idea or insight, underlying meaning that the author is trying to convey.
The theme can be the author’s thoughts on a topic of view of human nature

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What is mood?

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The feeling the reader takes away from the story

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What is tone?

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The feeling the author wants you to feel

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Protagonist

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The main character

The character who is clearly central to the story will all major events having some importance

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Antagonist

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The character who opposes or rivals the main character

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What is direct characterization?

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Direct statements made about a character’s personality

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What is indirect characterization?

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A character’s personality is revealed by other character’s responses (what they think or say)

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What are the three types of characters?

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Individual/round
Developing/dynamic
Static/flat

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What is an individual character?

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Round, many sided, complex personalities

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What is a developing character?

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Dynamic, many sided personalities that change for better or worse, by the end of the story

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What is a static character?

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Stereotype, have one or two characteristics that never change and are emphasized

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What is POV

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The perspective of which the story is told

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What is first person?

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The story told by the protagonist or one of the characters who interacts closely with the protagonist or other characters (uses we, I, me)

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What is second person?

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The narrator tells the story to another character using you, story is told by the addressee’s POV

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What is third person?

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A narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as he or she

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What is omniscient POV?

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The author can narrate the story using omniscient POV, moving from character to character and event to event

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What is limited POV?

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The author tells the story in third person. We know only what the char eye knows, and what the author chooses to reveal

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What are the two types of third person POV.

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Omniscient and limited

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