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Short Story Lit Term
Question | Answer |
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antagonist | the villian of the story |
climax | the turning point of a story |
character trait | personality description |
internal conflict | problem within a character |
external conflict | problem with a character and an outside force |
exposition | the beginning of the story where information is revealed |
falling action | occurs after the climax |
foreshadowing | hints that suggest future events |
irony | contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens |
mood | feeling a literary work conveys to readers |
narrator | person telling the story |
plot | sequence of related events that make up a story |
1st person point of view | narrator is a character in the story |
3rd person point of view limited | narrator is a character outside the story and can only report what he/she sees and hears |
3rd person point of view omniscient | narrator is a character outside the story and can report everything to the reader |
protagonist | hero of the story |
static character | character that does not change |
dynamic character | character that changes a great deal |
rising action | the events that move the plot forward |
science fiction | writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or future by using scientific data and theories |
setting | time and place of a story |
short story | a brief work of fiction |
fiction | a story that is not real |
theme | lesson or moral of story |