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7th period mr.heusel
| 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 actions | |
| Characterization | A writer uses what the character does or says to reveal personality | |
| Traits | A character's qualities, attitudes and values | |
| Motives | The reasons for a character's action | |
| Setting | The time and places of the story's 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 of the story or an insight about life | |
| Plot Structure | The way in which story events are organized for dramatic effect | |
| Exposition | Introduces the character and their situation | |
| Inciting Event | Often include in the exposition, reveals the central conflict of a story | |
| Rising Action | Leading to climax, develops the conflict | |
| Climax | The point of the 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 character- uses pronouns I, Me, My | |
| Third Person POV | Tells story from the 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 thought and feelings of a single character | |
| Chronological Order | Shows the chain of events in story as it unfolds in time order | |
| FlashBack | Shows events from before the present of the story, to reveal character's motive | |
| Dialogue | Presentation of character words as uttered, can also move the action along | |
| Direct Characterization | The narrator makes direct statement about a character's personality | |
| Indirect Characterization | Writer shows what characters are like by providing details about what the characters say and do, what other characters say about them, and how characters respond to them |