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Short Story Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| reversal/peripeteia | a sudden shift that sends the protagonist’s fortunes from good to bad or vice versa |
| Episodic | a series of loosely connected events |
| Nonsequitur | antiplot; a plot that defies traditional logic by presenting events without any clear sequence and characters without any clear motivation |
| Aposiopesis | a breaking off of speech, usually because of rising emotion or excitement |
| Apostrophe | a direct address to a person or object or idea who is not present or dead |
| Litotes | a form of understatement which is affirmed by negating the opposite |
| Metonymy | the substitution of one term for another |
| Synecdoche | a part refers to a whole |