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Short Story Terms
literary terms definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Setting | Where a story takes place |
| Mood | atmosphere of a story is usally dtermined by the setting |
| Theme | lesson or message of the story controlling idea ot control asighed author underlining meaning or main idea trying to convey |
| Conflict | Problem without conflict there is no story |
| *Internal conflict | Struggle within one's self person must make decesion overcome pain temper |
| -Person vs. self | Character must make a difficult decision |
| *external conflict | struggle with an outside force |
| 1. -Man vs. Man 2. -Man vs. Fate 3. Man vs. Society 4. Man vs. Nature | 1.problem between two people or two groups of people can be fight or araggment 2.A person has a problem facing he/she destiny.3.One person in conflict with a group. 4.A person in conflict with or struggleing against anyforce of nature |
| *Plot | Sequence of events |
| *Exposition | All background information is given setting and man char. are in fo. |
| *Narrative Hook | The problem/main conflict is revealed |
| *Rising Action | All of the greats leading to the climax |
| *Climax | most exiting part of the story the T point |
| *falling Action | All of the events leading to the conclusion |
| *Conclusion | The End... |
| Narrator | The person telling the story~not always the author |
| *Tone | Narrator/authornattitude toward the story |
| *Point Of View | how a story is told. The relationship between the narrato and the reader |
| -1st person | The Narrator is a part of the story and uses I,Me,My,Our,Us |
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