Vocab Short Story Unit

Question 0

Antagonist

Answer 0

Opponent who block the protagonist

Ex:/ Maleficent

Question 1

Protagonist

Answer 1

The main character the person for whom the reader roots

Ex:/ cinderella

Question 2

Conflict

Answer 2

The protagonists problem or struggle

Ex:/ rapunzell vs mother gothel

Question 3

What are the 4 types of conflict

Answer 3

Person vs person Thor vs Loki
Person vs nature Man vs wild
Person vs society Hunger games
Person vs self OUAT

Question 4

Static character

Answer 4

Character who stays the same

Ex:/ Dory

Question 5

Dynamic character

Answer 5

Character who changes significantly from beginning to end of story

Ex:/ Marlin

Question 6

Antihero

Answer 6

When the protagonist is actually a villain of the story, but we empathize anyway

Ex:/ The movie Maleficent

Question 7

Foil

Answer 7

Character serves as a direct contrast to main character, used to emphasize main charecter

Question 8

Theme

Answer 8

An insight about human life revealed in literary work

Question 9

Tone

Answer 9

The writers attitude the character, subject, and audience

Question 10

Mood

Answer 10

Climate on feeling of story

Question 11

Diction

Answer 11

The words a writer choses

Question 12

Dialect

Answer 12

A particular way of speaking that is unique to a region or social class

Question 13

Dialouge

Answer 13

The words a character speaks

Question 14

Figurative laungauge

Answer 14

Not litteral

Question 15

Idiom

Answer 15

A popular figure of speech

Question 16

Simile

Answer 16

Comparison using like, as, then, or resembles

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

When a writer gives an animal or object human trait

Question 18

Foreshadow

Answer 18

The use of hints or clues to suggest what might happen in the future

Question 19

Flashback

Answer 19

A scene that interrupts the normal narrative timeline in order to provide information about somthing

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

A ridiculous exaggeration can be used for comic effect, but usually just annoying

Question 21

Alussion

Answer 21

A reference to a time, place, person, or text

Question 22

Metaphor

Answer 22

A comparison not using like, as, than, or resembles

Question 23

Symbolism

Answer 23

A person place or event that has meaning in itself. That also stands for something not in itself

Question 24

Irony

Answer 24

In general, a discrepancy between expectation, and reality

Question 25

Verbal irony

Answer 25

Statements that imply a meaning opposite to there literal meaning

Question 26

Situational irony

Answer 26

Actions taken have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended

Question 27

Dramatic irony

Answer 27

Audience knows something character doesn’t