Unit 1 - Elements Of A Short Story Flashcards
What is setting?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is plot?
The arrangement of events
What is a protagonist?
The main character
What is an antagonist?
Whatever the protagonist struggles with(doesn’t have to be a person)
What is mood/atmosphere?
The emotional tone of the story
Name the 4 different points of view and what they are.
First person- told from someone’s personal account(narrator is a person in the story)
Third person omniscient- narrator not in action but sees all and knows all thoughts
Third person limited- narrator not in action, but tells a story following one character including thoughts
Third person objective- story is told as an observer would see it, with no thoughts
What is foreshadowing?
Hinting at something that will happen later in a story
What is flashback?
The writer presents incidents that happened before the opening of the story
What is irony?
When expectations are different from reality
Name the 6 elements of plot.
Introduction The inciting incident Rising action Climax Falling action Resolution
What is theme?
Theme is the main idea or underlining meaning of a literary work it is usually a statement about human behavior human nature or society
What is the difference between the subject and theme of a story?
The subject of the story is the topic on which the author has chosen to write. However the theme is a statement about that topic.
EXAMPLE: The subject of the story might be greed, while the theme of that same story might be the idea of the greed causes humans to do things they would not normally do.
What do theme statements NOT include?
They do not include clichés, they do not preach, they don’t specifically identify the story by summarization, and they do not use personal pronouns like I, we, or us.
Name 3 different conflicts!
Person vs people/person Person vs self Person vs nature Person vs object Person vs machine Person vs spirt/supernatural
Name the three main literary devices
Similarly, metaphor, personification
