Unit 1-The Short Story

Question 1

What do you call something that happens in the story?

Answer 1

Plot

Question 2

What are the imaginary persons who carry out the action of the plot?

Answer 2

Characters

Question 3

What is the meaning of the story called?

Answer 3

Theme

Question 4

What is the time,place,and general backround of a story?

Answer 4

Setting

Question 5

What is the attitude or emotion of the author or narrator toward his subject or audience?

Answer 5

Tone or mood

Question 6

The setting,tone or mood work together to give what to a story?

Answer 6

Unity

Question 7

What is an imaginative prose narrative written to give the reader entertainment and insight and is designed to produce a single impression or effect and is short enough to read in one sitting?

Answer 7

Short story

Question 8

The writer of a story may present his characters in several ways,two of which are:

Answer 8

Direct exposition-telling the reader directly what the character is like.
Indirect revelation-which allows the reader to draw his own conclusions from what the character himself does or thinks,or from what the other characters think of him.

Question 9

What kind of character remains essentially the same throughout the story?

Answer 9

Static character

Question 10

What kind of character undergoes some change and is different at the end of the story?

Answer 10

Dynamic character

Question 11

The________ of a story is the method of presenting the reader with the material of the story;it is the perspective from which the story is told.

Answer 11

Point of view

Question 12

In what point of view is there an all-knowing author who is the narrator who comments freely on the actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all characters and tell what they think and feel?

Answer 12

Omniscient point of view

Question 13

In what point of view does the author present the characters in action with no comment,allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions about them?

Answer 13

Objective point of view

Question 14

Who wrote “Good Morning,Miss Dove”?

Answer 14

Frances Gray Patton

Question 15

Who is the author from Portsmouth,England, who is best known for Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and A Christmas Carol, and also wrote “A School of Facts”?

Answer 15

Charles Dickens

Question 16

Who was the author that was born in New Zealand, and was known for her sympathetic portrayal of characters,and wrote “The Garden Party”?

Answer 16

Katherine Mansfield

Question 17

Who was the English poet who developed and perfected the dramatic monologue,and wrote “How They Brought the Good News from Gent to Aix”?

Answer 17

Robert Browning

Question 18

What is a poem which reveals a character through his conversation?

Answer 18

Dramatic monologue

Question 19

Who was the American poet from Maine,who was known for her first poem “Renascence,” and wrote “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”?

Answer 19

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question 20

Who is the British poet best known for his ballads,and wrote “The Highwayman”?

Answer 20

Alfred Noyes

Question 21

Who was the American poet from New Hampshire,and is considered by many to be the outstanding poet of the twentieth century,and is known for A Boy’s Will and North of Boston,and also wrote “The Death of the Hired Man”?

Answer 21

Robert Frost

Question 22

What is a short narrative song written in stanzas?

Answer 22

Ballad

Question 23

What are groups of repeated lines usually containing the same meter and rhyme scheme?

Answer 23

Stanzas

Question 24

What is the conversation between characters of which the action of a story is usually revealed?

Answer 24

Dialogue

Question 25

What was the anonymous,and earliest type of ballad that was originally sung?

Answer 25

Folk ballad

Question 26

What type of ballad is consciously written by a poet in imitation of the folk ballad?

Answer 26

Literary ballad

Question 27

Who was the author that was often called “Mr. Boston,”whose most important work was “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,” and wrote “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,or the Wonderful ‘One Hoss Shay’: A Logical Story”?

Answer 27

Oliver Wendall Holmes