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Shory Story Elements Flashcards

What each person in the story is

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Antagonist

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Opposition to the main character

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What a person is like flat, wellrounded, life-like, complex

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Character

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Climax

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Point of highest excitment or suspence in the story

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Struggle between opposing forces… man vs man, man vs enviroment, man vs himself

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Conflict

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Denouement

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Plot gets sorted out

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A character how grows or changes

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dynamic (character(

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Flashback

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Going back in time

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Character used to emphasize traits of another character

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Foil

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Foreshadowing

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A hint of things to come

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type or kind of literature

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Genre

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Mood

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feelings brought to the story

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the telling of a story

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Narrative

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persoective from which the narrator veiws the story

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Point of veiw

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Omniscent

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Told in third person. Narrator can see into the monds of every other character

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told in third person the narrator knows the thoughts on one chracter only

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Limited omniscent

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First person

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Telling a story about there self refering to ( oneself as I or me)

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Main character of story

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Protagonist

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Setting

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the place and time of the story

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character who does not change or grow during the story (opposite to a dynamic character)

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Static (character)

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Stereotype

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Character that appears to be typical of a certain group

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One who represents a certain type similar to a steretype

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Stock character

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Style

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how one author differs from another can be shown by word chose, sentence lengtg

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When the audience is made to wonder what hapoens next

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Suspence

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Theme

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Message or main idea of a piece of literature

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