Short Story Terms

Question 0

Earlier events advance the plot by bringing about later ones. “Close the door”

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Cause and effect

Question 1

The sequence of events in the story, it is a blueprint design of what happens from start to finish

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Plot

Question 2

Follows the climax and resolves the conflict. The two forces no longer struggle and the actions wind down

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Climax

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The word used to identify a story that is not true

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Fiction

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The atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece, within the setting. It is a general sense or feeling which the reading is supposed to get from the text

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Mood

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Counterpart to the main character and source of a story’s main conflict. This person opposes the protagonist in a significant way.

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Antagonist

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Much shorter than a novel and can usually be read in one sitting

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Short story

Question 7

In a work of fiction is a central idea or perception about life or human nature that the writer conveys to the reader. The main idea or meaning of the story.

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Theme

Question 8

POV where the story is told in a narrative voice outside the action not one of the characters. I comment that this narrator Lives “in our ceiling tiles.”

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Third person omniscient narrator

Question 9

Are the people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action of the story

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Characters

Question 10

Is the apparent emotional state or attitude of the speaker as conveyed through their language

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Tone

Question 11

Is a struggle between people, or between people and nature, and obstacle or society. Without them, the rising action can’t “go. “

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Conflict

Question 12

Is the time and place in which occur in a story and is generally established in the exposition of the plot sequence

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Setting

Question 13

POV where the narrator is a character in the story. Told from the “I” point of view

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First person narrator

Question 14

Is the highest point of unresolved conflict and turning point in the story. There is no going back after this point

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Climax

Question 15

Is a protagonist who comes to a bad and as a result of his own behavior

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Tragic hero

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Occurs when an event unexpectedly happens, in the sense that is somehow in absurd or mocking opposition from us the reader believed what occur. We call it, “a simple twist of fate. “

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Irony

Question 17

Is the main character in a story, the one with whom the reader is meant to identify. The person who plight the reader is most invested although they are not always “good.”

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Protagonist

Question 18

Is a description which exaggerates an elements of the story

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Hyperbole

Question 19

Occurs when future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen

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Foreshadow

Question 20

Establishes the setting, introduces the characters, and gives important background information at the beginning of the story

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Exposition

Question 21

Is that use of specific objects or images to represent abstract ideas. This must be something that is tangible or visible, while the idea it represents must be something abstract or universal.

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Symbol

Question 22

Is when authors describe the characters in an open manner. Readers must notice what characters think, say, or do. This is the TELL

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Direct characterization

Question 23

Is a term used to refer to the speaker who’s telling the short story, there are several forms

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POV

Question 24

Occurs when authors were feel characters through their thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions. This is the SHOW.

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Indirect characterization