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SHORT STORY TERMS
Term | Definition |
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Story Elements | Characters, Plot, THeme, Setting, and Conflict |
Characters | People or aniimals who take part in a story's action |
Traits | descrption of a person |
Theme | is the central message expressed in a story |
Plot | is the sequence of events in a short story |
Exposition | introduces the setting- the time and place of the story, the character, and the basic situation |
Rising Action | introduces the conflict, or problem |
Climax | is the turning point of a story |
Falling Action | is the part of a story when the confflict lessens |
Resolution | is the stor's conclusions |
Conflict | a problem between human beigns |
*Man vs man | a conflict between two human beigns |
*man vs society | a conflict between a human beign and the rest of them |
*man vs. nature | a conflict between a human and the earth |
*man vs. supernatural | a conflict between a human and something more powerful |
*man vs. self | a conflict between a human beign with itself |
Point of View | a place from where you are analizing something |
Fable | are brief stories featuring animals that speak and act like humans |
Folk Tale | tell stories about ordinary people |