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Story Terms
Terms used in short stoires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Commercial Fiction | Solely for entertainment |
| Literary Fiction | Invokes thought |
| Conflict | Clash of Actions |
| Protagonist | "main character" |
| Antagonist | Provides a conflict with the protagonist |
| Artistic Unity | Everything is relevant to the plot |
| Direct Presentation | Author tells us straight out what the character is like (indirect is shown through actions) |
| Flat Characters | Can be summed up in a sentence or two |
| Round Characters | Complex/three-dimensional |
| Stock Characters | stereotyped flat characters, i.e.-the brilliant eccentric detective |
| Static Character | Remains the same throughout the plot |
| Dynamic Character | Undergoes a distinct change of character |
| Theme | The controlling idea or central insight. Teaches you about life. |
| Point of Views | Omniscient-narrator knows all Third person limited-third person but a viewpoint of a character First person- told from the eyes of the character Objective- Like a camera, can only tell what is going on, providing no insight |
| Symbol | Means more than what is suggested on the surface |
| Allegory | Second meaning beneath the surface, endowing a cluster of characters, objects, or events with added significance |
| Fantasy | transcends reality |
| Verbal Irony | opposite of the what the speaker intends to say, sarcasm is the biggest example |
| Dramatic Irony | Contrast in what a character says, and what the reader knows to be true. |
| Irony of a Situation | Discrepancy between appearance and reality/ or between what is and what would seem appropriate |
| Sentimentality | Excessive Emotion |
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