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Short Story Elements
Terms we use in the short story unit and their definitions
Question | Answer |
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Plot | The story line or what happened in the story |
Introduction | The introduction of the characters, their personalities and problems |
Rising Action | Building up to the climax (The beginning of a problem that leads into an even bigger problem.) |
Conflict | A problem |
Internal | When the character's problem is personal |
External | When the characters problem occurs from something they can't control |
Climax | The biggest problem in the story/when most of the action happens |
Falling Action | Everything that happens after the climax |
Resolution | The End of the story |
Character | The people/animals in the story |
Protagonist | Trying to reach a goal (main character) |
Antagonist | Trying to stop the protagonist from reaching their goal |
Round | A character with multiple traits but doesn't change through out the story |
Secondary | A character with one trait making them stereotypical |
Flat | A character who mainly has one personality and stereotype |
Dynamic | A character who learned a lesson throughout the story and changes |
Ways to reveal a characters traits and Values | -Description of the character -What they do -What they say -How other treat them/What others say about them |
Setting | Where the story takes place |
Social Setting | The type of society where the story takes place |
Atmosphere | Mood or emotion the story has |
Imagery | Something being described so well you can picture it |
Connotation | Words that have emotional meaning |
Theme | The moral of the story |
A good theme statement | -has a complete sentence -has the title/author of the text -states the lesson learned in the text |
Irony | Irony can be sarcasm, the opposite of what is expected to happen, or when the audience knows something the character's don't |
Point of View | Who is telling the story -1rst person (the character narrating) -3rd person limited (Narrator narrating for one character) -3rd person omniscient (Narrator narrating what multiple people are thinking) |
Symbol | A average object/image that has a deeper meaning in the story |
Foreshadowing | When the author gives hints to what might happen next in the story |
Flashback | When the writer writes about something in the past (possibly to explain the futur) |
Suspense | When the author has you on the edge of your seat |