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English vocab review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| short story | a short fictional prose narrative usually involving one unified episode; shorter than a novel |
| elements of fiction | plot, characterization, setting, point of view, style, theme |
| plot | sequence of events in a story and their relation to one another; answers what happened and why it happened |
| parts of plot | exposition, rising action, climax, falling action (not all short stories have all of these parts) |
| exposition | background or setting of a plot |
| rising action | dramatizes the specific events that set the conflict in motion |
| climax | emotional highpoint of the narrative |
| falling action | events begin to wind down and point the reader to the end of the story |
| foreshadowing | warning or indication of a future event |
| protagonist | central character |
| antagonist | character in the story who opposes the protagonist |
| point of view | author's choice of a narrator for the story (first person or third person) |