Unit 3- The American Short Story Flashcards
Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?
Washington Irving
What is an imaginative prose narrative written written to give the reader entertainment and insight?
Short story
What is the word that describes what happens in a story?
Plot
What are the people who make things happen in a story called?
Characters
What is the term that refers to what the story means?
Theme
What is the time, place, and general background of a story?
Setting
What is the attitude or emotion of the author or narrator toward his subject or audience in a story?
Tone or mood
Tone or mood work together to give what to a story?
Unity
Who was the author who was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world and has been called the “Inventor of the Short Story”?
Washington Irving
What is the method of presenting the reader with the perspective from which the story is told?
Point of view
What kind of point of view has an all-knowing author is the narrator who comments freely on actions and characters as he is able to delve into the minds of all the characters and tell what they think and feel?
Omniscient point of view
What kind of point of view is it when the author tells the story from the viewpoint of one character using either the first or third person?
Limited point of view
What kind of 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?
Objective point of view
Who wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who was the master storyteller whose stories and critical writings have influenced the development of the short story, and later turned to increasingly to mystery and horror tails and introduced the detective story, was also a poet, and was noted for the extremely melodic and eerie quality of his poetry?
Edgar Allan Poe
Who wrote “The Cop and the Anthem”?
O. Henry
What is a method of expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense?
Irony
What kind of irony is saying the opposite of what is meant?
Verbal irony
What kind if irony contrasts what the character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true?
Dramatic irony
What kind of irony presents a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment?
Irony of situation
What is the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it, or for a humorous effect?
Satire
What is the unexpected twist at the end if the story which goes contrary to the reader’s expectations?
Surprise ending
Who was the author whose real name was William Sydney Porter who wrote stories which are famous for their surprise endings and use of dialect?
O. Henry
Who is the author from Maine who wrote “The Town Poor”?
Sarah Orne Jewett
Who wrote “The Open Boat”?
Stephen Crane
Who was the author who rebelled against his Christian heritage and did not recognize sin as sin but attempted to blame man’s behavior on social, economic, and environmental forces?
Stephen Crane
Who wrote “The Great Carbuncle”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was the author who was one of the first great American novelists and short story writers, and was convinced of man’s innate sinful nature, and he forcefully expresses his view in his penetrating characterization S and his use of themes dealing with sin and guilt?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
