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Short Story Terms Flashcards

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A brief work of fiction where, usually, the main character faces a conflict that is worked out in the plot of the story

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Short story

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A person in a story, poem, or play

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Character

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Fully developed, has many different character traits

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Round character

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Stereotyped, one-dimensional, few traits

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Static

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Changes as a result of the story’s events

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Dynamic

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How the author develops the characters, especially the main character

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Characterization

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The author directly states what the character’s personality is like

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Direct characterization

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Showing a character’s personality through his/her actions, thoughts, feelings, words, appearance or other character’ observations of reactions

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Indirect characterization

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Main character of the story that changes

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Protagonist

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A major character who opposes the protagonist

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Antagonist

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Types of antagonists:

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People
Nature
Society

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A struggle between two opposing forces

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Conflict

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Types of Conflict

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Internal and External

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Takes place in a character’s own mind

Man vs. Him(her)self

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Internal

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A character struggled against an outside force 
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. technology, progress
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Supernatural
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External

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Series of related events that make up a story

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Plot

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Section that introduces characters, the setting, and conflicts

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Exposition

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The time and place of the story’s action

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Setting

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Consists of a series of complications 
Occur when the main characters take action to resolve their problems and are met with further problems:
-Fear
-Hostility
-Threatening situation
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Rising Action

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The turning point in the story: the high point of interest and suspense

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Climax

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All events following the climax or turning point in the story. These events are a result of the action taken at the climax

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Falling Action

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The end of the central conflict: it shows how the situation turns out and this ties loose ends
(Denouement)

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Resolution

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Vantage point from which the writer tells the story

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Point of view

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One of the characters is actually telling the story using pronoun “I”

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First person

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You

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Second person

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He,she,it

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Third person

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(Enters on one character’s thoughts and actions (third person))

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Limited Omniscient

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All knowing narrator. Can center on the thoughts and actions of any and all characters (third person)

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Omniscient

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The central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
The “main idea” of the story

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Theme

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The present scene in the story is interrupted to flash backward and tell what happened in past time

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Flashback

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Clues the writer puts in the story to give the reader a hint of what is to come

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Foreshadowing

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An object, person, or event that functions as itself, but also stands for something more than itself
Example: scales’ function is to weigh things, but they are also a symbol of our justice system

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Symbol

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Involved imaginative comparison between two unlike things

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Figurative Language

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Comparing two unlike things using like or as

“I wandered lonely as a cloud”

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Simile

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Comparing two unlike things (not using like or as)

“Life is a roller coaster, it has lots of ups and downs

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Metaphor

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Giving human qualities to non-human things

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Personification

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A contrast between expectation and reality

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Irony

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Saying one thing but meaning something completely different

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Verbal Irony

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A contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does happen

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Situational Irony

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Occurs when the reader knows something important that the characters in the story do not know

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Dramatic Irony

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Reference to a statement, person, place, or events from:
Literature
History 
Religion
Mythology
Politics
Sports
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Allusion

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Uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what is going to happen next in a story

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Suspense

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Language that appeals to the senses
Touch
Taste
Sight 
Sound
Smell

Example: Creating a picture in the reader’s mind through our senses.

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Imagery

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