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Unit 1 Literary Term
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Short Story | a brief work of fiction intended to be read in a single setting |
| Characters | people or the animals who take part in the action |
| Characterization | a writer uses what the character dies or says to reveal personality |
| Motives | the reasons for a characters actions |
| Setting | the time and place of the storys action |
| Mood | the story's atmosphere |
| Plot | a sequence of events in the story |
| Conflict | struggle between opposing forces in the story |
| Internal Conflict | takes place in the mind of a character ( maybe opposing feelings) |
| External Conflict | takes place between a character and an outside force, such as nature |
| Theme | the message if the story or an insight about life |
| Plot Structure | the way in which story events are organized for dramatic effect |
| Exposition | introduces the characters and their situation |
| Inciting Event | often included in the exposition, reveals the central conflict of a story |
| Rising Action | leading to climax, develops conflict |
| Climax | the point of greatest intensity in a story, the turning point where its outcome is determined |
| Falling Action | sets up the story's ending |
| Resolution | shows how the conflict is settled |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a story is told |
| First Person POV | presents the story from perspective of a narrator outside of a character |
| Third Person POV | tells story from perspective of a narrator outside the story |
| Omniscient Third Person | narrator knows everything reveals what each character thinks/feels |
| Limited Third Person | narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of a single character |
| Chronological Order | show the chain of events in as it unfolds in time order |
| Flashback | shows events from before the present of the story, to reveal character's motives |
| Dialogue | presentation of character's words as uttered, can also move the action along |
| Direct Characterization | the narrator makes direct statement about a character's personality |
| Indirect Characterization | writers shows what characters are like by providing details about what the characters say and dok, what other characters say about them, and how characters respond to them |
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Nathan Cha
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